Heterothele
Appearance
Heterothele | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
Family: | Theraphosidae |
Genus: | Heterothele Karsch, 1879[1] |
Type species | |
H. honesta Karsch, 1879
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Species | |
10, see text |
Heterothele is a genus of South American and African tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1879.[2]
Species
[edit]As of March 2020[update] it contains ten species, found in Africa and Argentina:[1]
- Heterothele affinis Laurent, 1946 – Congo, Tanzania
- Heterothele atropha Simon, 1907 – Congo
- Heterothele caudicula (Simon, 1886) – Argentina
- Heterothele darcheni (Benoit, 1966) – Gabon
- Heterothele decemnotata (Simon, 1891) – Congo
- Heterothele gabonensis (Lucas, 1858) – Gabon
- Heterothele honesta Karsch, 1879 (type) – Angola
- Heterothele hullwilliamsi Smith, 1990 – Cameroon
- Heterothele ogbunikia Smith, 1990 – Nigeria
- Heterothele spinipes Pocock, 1897 – Tanzania
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Heterothele Karsch, 1879". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
- ^ Karsch, F. (1879). "Zwei neue afrikanische Vogelspinnen". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1879: 63–65.