Holothele Explained

Holothele is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1879.^[1] Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders, it was transferred to the tarantulas in 1980.^[2]

Diagnosis

They can be distinguished by the lack of urticating hairs, tarsus 4 being pseudo segmented. The tarsal claws own a row of teeth, and a labium with around 90 cuspules.^[3]

Species

it contains six species, found in the West Indies and in the north of South America:^[4]

• Holothele culebrae (Petrunkevitch, 1929) – Puerto Rico
• Holothele denticulata (Franganillo, 1930) – Cuba
• Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875) (type) – Panama, Venezuela, Bolivia, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil
• Holothele maddeni (Esposito & Agnarsson, 2014) - Dominican Republic
• Holothele shoemakeri (Petrunkevitch, 1926) – US Virgin Islands (St. Thomas)
• Holothele sulfurensis Maréchal, 2005 – Guadeloupe

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)

Transferred to other genera

See also

• List of Theraphosidae species

Notes and References

1. Karsch. F.. 1879. Arachnologische Beiträge. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. 534–562. 52. Ferdinand Karsch.
2. Raven. R. J.. 1980. The evolution and biogeography of the mygalomorph spider family Hexathelidae (Araneae, Chelicerata). Journal of Arachnology. 8. 254. Robert Raven.
3. Guadanucci . J. P. L. . Perafán L. . Carlos A. . Valencia-Cuéllar . D. . 2017 . The genus Holothele Karsch, 1879: the identity of the type species (Mygalomorphae, theraphosidae) . Zoosystema . 39 . 2 . 263–271 . en . 10.5252/z2017n2a5 . 20.500.12008/22552 . 89960461 . 1280-9551. free .
4. Gen. Holothele Karsch, 1879. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-04-17. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.