Spinosatibiapalpus | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
Family: | Theraphosidae |
Genus: |
Spinosatibiapalpus Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 [1] |
Type species | |
Metriopelma trinitatis (
Pocock, 1903)
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Species | |
5, see text |
Spinosatibiapalpus is a genus of tarantulas erected by Gabriel and Sherwood in 2020 for a newly discovered species and two other previously described species bearing a unique palpal bulb morphology. [2] The name is a reference to the spines found on the fourth section of the pedipalp in adult males. [2] This distinctive feature was also found in Pseudhapalopus species, but because it is never mentioned in the original description of that genus, [3] Gabriel and Sherwood called into question the validity of Pseudohapalopus, and moved all its species except P. aculeatus, known only from a single male found in Bolivia in 1907. [3] [1] It is impossible to place P. aculeatus because the holotype was destroyed when the museum housing it was bombed during World War II, and it has been declared as nomen dubium. [4] [1]
As of July 2022 [update] it contains 5 species: [1]