Pachistopelma

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Pachistopelma
Pachistopelma rufonigrum female.jpg
Female Pachistopelma rufonigrum in habitat; scale bar = 10 millimetres (0.39 in)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Pachistopelma
Pocock, 1901[1]
Type species
P. rufonigrum
Pocock, 1901
Species

Pachistopelma is a genus of Brazilian tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1901.[2] As of May 2020 it contains two species, found in Brazil: P. bromelicola and P. rufonigrum.[1] They have a straight front eye row and males have a spinose spur on the first tibia. Females have two spermathecae lacking lobes or constrictions that have a slight curvature in the middle.[3]

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  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Gen. Pachistopelma Pocock, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  2. ^ Pocock, R. I. (1901). "Some new and old genera of S.-American Avicularidae". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 8 (7): 540–555.
  3. ^ Bertani, R. (2012). "Revision, cladistic analysis and biogeography of Typhochlaena C. L. Koch, 1859, Pachistopelma Pocock, 1901 and Iridopelma Pocock, 1901 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae)". ZooKeys. 230: 1–94. doi:10.3897/zookeys.230.3500. PMC 3494022. PMID 23166476.


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