Biology:Neoholothele
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Short description: Genus of spiders
Neoholothele | |
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Neoholothele incei | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
Family: | Theraphosidae |
Genus: | Neoholothele Guadanucci & Weinmann, 2015 |
Type species | |
Neoholothele incei (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899)
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Species | |
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Neoholothele is a genus of tarantula, first described in 2015 by Guadanucci & Weinmann. (As of August 2022), it contains 2 species Neoholothele fasciaaurinigra and Neoholothele incei, the latter being the type species.[1] They are named after the prefix "neo" from the Greek word for new, and the genus Holothele.[2]
Diagnosis
They can be distinguished by the coloration of the carapace, which is dark with a golden cephalic region. Females with a striped pattern on the abdomen, with a long and slender spermathecae receptors. Males with a retrolateral branch in the male tibial spurs with an apical end.[2]
References
- ↑ "NMBE - World Spider Catalog". https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5541.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Leite Guadanucci, José Paulo; Weinmann, Dirk (2015). Description of Neoholothele gen. nov. (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Schismatothelinae), Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. doi:10.1080/01650521.2015.1110309. https://repositorio.unesp.br/bitstream/handle/11449/161205/WOS000369947600009.pdf?sequence=1. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
Wikidata ☰ Q27464928 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoholothele.
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