Biology:Pachistopelma
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Short description: Genus of spiders
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| Female Pachistopelma rufonigrum in habitat; scale bar = 10 millimetres (0.39 in) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Theraphosidae |
| Genus: | Pachistopelma Pocock, 1901[1] |
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| P. rufonigrum Pocock, 1901
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Pachistopelma is a genus of Brazil ian tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1901.[2] (As of May 2020) it contains two species, found in Brazil : P. bromelicola and P. rufonigrum.[1] They have a straight front eye row and males have a spinose spur on the first tibia. Females have two spermathecae lacking lobes or constrictions that have a slight curvature in the middle.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gen. Pachistopelma Pocock, 1901. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3403. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ↑ 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. https://zenodo.org/record/1430516.
- ↑ Bertani, R. (2012). "Revision, cladistic analysis and biogeography of Typhochlaena C. L. Koch, 1859, Pachistopelma Pocock, 1901 and Iridopelma Pocock, 1901 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae)". ZooKeys (230): 1–94. doi:10.3897/zookeys.230.3500. PMID 23166476.
Wikidata ☰ Q1866635 entry
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