Hapalopus

Hapalopus is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1875.[2]

Hapalopus
Hapalopus triseriatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Hapalopus
Ausserer, 1875[1]
Type species
H. formosus
Ausserer, 1875
Species

10, see text

Diagnosis

They own a ring like keel on the palpal bulb, the tibial apophysis with convergent branches and a spermatheca having a membrane like base. They also lack stridulatory hairs and they own numerous labial cuspules.[3]

Species

As of July 2022 it contains 10 species, found in South America and Panama:[1]

  • Hapalopus aymara Perdomo, Panzera & Pérez-Miles, 2009 - Bolivia, Brazil
  • Hapalopus butantan (Pérez-Miles, 1998) - Brazil
  • Hapalopus coloratus (Valerio, 1982) - Panama
  • Hapalopus formosus Ausserer, 1875 (type) - Colombia
  • Hapalopus gasci (Maréchal, 1996) - French Guiana
  • Hapalopus lesleyae Gabriel, 2011 - Guyana
  • Hapalopus nigriventris (Mello-Leitão, 1939) - Venezuela
  • Hapalopus serrapelada Fonseca-Ferreira, Zampaulo & Guadanucci, 2017 - Brazil
  • Hapalopus triseriatus Caporiacco, 1955 - Venezuela
  • Hapalopus variegatus (Caporiacco, 1955) - Venezuela

In synonymy
  • H. magdalena (Karsch, 1879) = Hapalopus formosus Ausserer, 1875

Nomen dubium
  • Hapalopus limensis Vellard, 1954 – (Though the description by Vellard wasn't published)

Transferred to other genera
  • Hapalopus aldana (West, 2000) → Magnacarina aldana
  • Hapalopus flavohirtus Simon, 1889 → Catanduba flavohirta
  • Hapalopus guianensis Caporiacco, 1954 → Neostenotarsus guianensis
  • Hapalopus incei F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 → Neoholothele incei
  • Hapalopus nondescriptus Mello-Leitão, 1926 → Vitalius nondescriptus
  • Hapalopus pentaloris (Simon, 1888) → Davus pentaloris
  • Hapalopus pictus Pocock, 1903 → Anqasha picta
  • Hapalopus rectimanus Mello-Leitão, 1923 → Plesiopelma rectimanum
  • Hapalopus semiaurantiacus (Simon, 1897) → Plesiopelma semiaurantiacum
  • Hapalopus tripepii (Dresco, 1984) → Nhandu tripepii
  • Hapalopus versicolor (Simon, 1897) → Cyriocosmus versicolor

See also

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Hapalopus Ausserer, 1875". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  2. Ausserer, A. (1875). "Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor)". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 25: 125–206.
  3. Perdomo, Cintya; Panzera, Alejandra; Pérez-Miles, Fernando (2009). "Hapalopus aymara a new species of tarantula from Bolivia (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Theraphosinae)". Iheringia. Série Zoologia. 99: 53–55. doi:10.1590/S0073-47212009000100007. ISSN 0073-4721.


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