Pamphobeteus

Pamphobeteus is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1901.[2] It includes some of the largest spiders in the world. They are found in South America, including the countries of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia and Panama.

Pamphobeteus
Pamphobeteus antinous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Pamphobeteus
Pocock, 1901[1]
Type species
P. nigricolor
(Ausserer, 1875)
Species

18, see text

Diagnosis

The males of the Pamphobeteus genus have a spoon shaped or thin embolus in the palpal bulb with elongate retrolateral superior and apical keels. They also possess a tibial apophysis with two branches on the first pair of legs, the metatarsus of which closes between the two branches. Females can be distinguished from most genera (except Xenesthis and Longilyra), by the large fused base of the spermathecae and short receptacles, and differs from those two genera by the presence of only ventral metatarsal scopulae on leg IV, and absence of lyriform stridulatory setae respectively.[3]

Species

As of February 2023 it contains eighteen species, endemic to northwestern South America and Panama:[1]

  • Pamphobeteus antinous Pocock, 1903Peru, Bolivia
  • Pamphobeteus augusti (Simon, 1889)Ecuador
  • Pamphobeteus crassifemur Bertani, Fukushima & Silva, 2008Brazil
  • Pamphobeteus ferox (Ausserer, 1875)Colombia
  • Pamphobeteus fortis (Ausserer, 1875) – Colombia
  • Pamphobeteus grandis Bertani, Fukushima & Silva, 2008 – Brazil
  • Pamphobeteus insignis Pocock, 1903 – Colombia
  • Pamphobeteus lapola Sherwood, Gabriel, Brescovit & Lucas, 2022 – Colombia
  • Pamphobeteus nellieblyae Sherwood, Gabriel, Brescovit & Lucas, 2022 – Ecuador
  • Pamphobeteus nigricolor (Ausserer, 1875) (type) – Colombia and Brazil
  • Pamphobeteus ornatus Pocock, 1903 – Panama and Colombia
  • Pamphobeteus petersi Schmidt, 2002 – Ecuador and Peru
  • Pamphobeteus sucreorum Gabriel & Sherwood, 2022 - Panama
  • Pamphobeteus ultramarinus Schmidt, 1995 – Ecuador
  • Pamphobeteus urvinae Sherwood, Gabriel, Brescovit & Lucas, 2022 – Ecuador
  • Pamphobeteus verdolaga Cifuentes, Perafán & Estrada-Gomez, 2016 – Colombia
  • Pamphobeteus vespertinus (Simon, 1889) – Ecuador
  • Pamphobeteus zaruma Sherwood, Gabriel, Brescovit & Lucas, 2022 – Ecuador

Formerly included:

  • Pamphobeteus anomalus Mello-Leitão, 1923Proshapalopus amazonicus
  • Pamphobeteus benedeni (Bertkau, 1880)Lasiodora benedeni
  • Pamphobeteus cephalopheus Piza, 1944 → Vitalius vellutinus
  • Pamphobeteus communis Piza, 1939Vitalius dubius
  • Pamphobeteus holophaeus Mello-Leitão, 1923Eupalaestrus spinosissimus
  • Pamphobeteus insularis Mello-Leitão, 1923Vitalius wacketi
  • Pamphobeteus litoralis Piza, 1976Vitalius wacketi
  • Pamphobeteus masculus Piza, 1939Vitalius wacketi
  • Pamphobeteus melanocephalus Mello-Leitão, 1923Vitalius sorocabae
  • Pamphobeteus mus Piza, 1944Vitalius dubius
  • Pamphobeteus piracicabensis Piza, 1933Vitalius dubius
  • Pamphobeteus platyomma Mello-Leitão, 1923Vitalius platyomma (Nomen dubium)
  • Pamphobeteus rondoniensis Mello-Leitão, 1923Vitalius rondoniensis (Nomen dubium)
  • Pamphobeteus roseus Mello-Leitão, 1923Vitalius roseus
  • Pamphobeteus sorocabae Mello-Leitão, 1923Vitalius sorocabae
  • Pamphobeteus striatus Schmidt & Antonelli, 1996Lasiodorides striatus
  • Pamphobeteus tetracanthus Mello-Leitão, 1923Vitalius tetracanthus (Nomen dubium)
  • Pamphobeteus urbanicolus Soares, 1941Vitalius dubius
  • Pamphobeteus ypiranguensis Soares, 1941Vitalius dubius

See also

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Pamphobeteus Pocock, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. Pocock, R. I. (1901). "Some new and old genera of S.-American Avicularidae". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 8 (7): 540–555. doi:10.1080/03745480109443359.
  3. Sherwood, Danniella; Gabriel, Ray; Brescovit, Antonio D.; Lucas, Sylvia M. (14 November 2023). "On the species of Pamphobeteus Pocock, 1901 deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, with redescriptions of type material, the first record of P. grandis Bertani, Fukushima & Silva, 2008 from Peru, and the description of four new species". Arachnology). 19 (3). doi:10.13156/arac.2022.19.3.650. ISSN 2050-9928.
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