Hapalopus is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1875.[2]
| Hapalopus | |
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| Hapalopus triseriatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
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10, see text | |
Diagnosis edit
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 edit
As of July 2022[update] 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 edit
- H. magdalena (Karsch, 1879) = Hapalopus formosus Ausserer, 1875
Nomen dubium edit
- Hapalopus limensis Vellard, 1954 – (Though the description by Vellard wasn't published)
Transferred to other genera edit
- 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 edit
References edit
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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