Holothele

Holothele is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1879.[4] Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders, it was transferred to the tarantulas in 1980.[5]

Holothele
Holothele incei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Holothele
Karsch, 1879[1]
Type species
H. longipes
(L. Koch, 1875)
Species

5, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of March 2020 it contains five species, found in the West Indies and northern South America:[1]

In synonymy:

  • H. ludwigi (Strand, 1907) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
  • H. ravida (Simon, 1889) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
  • H. recta Karsch, 1879 = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
  • H. rondoni (Lucas & Bücherl, 1972) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
  • H. sanguiniceps (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
gollark: I see. Maybe I should have gotten a meta-negative bee to produce unenergy.
gollark: I throw the lack of bee at the apiopyroforms.
gollark: ++roll d20
gollark: I summon negative bee, then.
gollark: I throw the bee to create an apiolectromagnetic field with a direction perpendicular to the line between the centre of the apiopyroform swarm and me.

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Holothele Karsch, 1879". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  2. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 152.
  3. Rudloff, J.-P. (1997). "Revision der Gattung Holothele Karsch, 1879 nebst Aufstellung einer neuen Gattung Stichoplastoris gen. nov. (Araneae, Theraphosidae) und Wiedereinsetzung einiger weiterer Gattungen der Mygalomorphae". Arachnologisches Magazin. 5 (2): 10.
  4. Karsch, F. (1879). "Arachnologische Beiträge". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. 52: 534–562.
  5. Raven, R. J. (1980). "The evolution and biogeography of the mygalomorph spider family Hexathelidae (Araneae, Chelicerata)". Journal of Arachnology. 8: 254.


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