Euathlus is a genus of South American tarantulas that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1875.[3] These spiders are medium sized and are usually found in high elevations in the Andes.[4] It is a senior synonym of Paraphysa,[2] and was formerly considered a senior synonym of Brachypelma,[5] but this was later rejected.[6]
| Euathlus | |
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| Eathlus truculentus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Theraphosidae |
| Genus: | Euathlus Ausserer, 1875[1] |
| Type species | |
| E. truculentus L. Koch, 1875
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| Species | |
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14, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Diagnosis edit
Males own a palpal bulb with two prolateral keels, with the tip curved retrolaterally. The tibial apophyses has retrolateral spines and a spine on the retrolateral branch which almost reached the apex. And a urticating patch in the center of the opisthosoma, which own mainly type 3 and 4 urticating hairs. Females also can be distinguished by two 4 sided spermathecal receptacles, with sphere like chambers.[4]
Species edit
As of July 2022[update] it contains fourteen species, found in Argentina, Chile and Peru:[1]
- Euathlus affinis (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
- Euathlus antai Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2014 – Chile
- Euathlus atacama Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2014 – Chile
- Euathlus condorito Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2014 – Chile
- Euathlus diamante Ferretti, 2015 – Argentina
- Euathlus grismadoi Ríos-Tamayo, 2020 – Argentina
- Euathlus manicata (Simon, 1892) – Chile
- Euathlus mauryi Ríos-Tamayo, 2020 – Argentina
- Euathlus pampa Ríos-Tamayo, 2020 – Argentina
- Euathlus parvulus (Pocock, 1903) – Chile
- Euathlus sagei Ferretti, 2015 – Argentina
- Euathlus tenebrarum Ferretti, 2015 – Argentina
- Euathlus truculentus L. Koch, 1875 (type) – Chile, Argentina
- Euathlus vanessae Quispe-Colca & Ferretti, 2021 – Peru
In synonymy edit
- E. phryxotrichoides (Strand, 1907) = Euathlus truculentus
Nomen dubium edit
- Euathlus roseus (Guérin, 1838) - Chile
Transferred to other genera edit
- Euathlus albopilosus (Valerio, 1980) → Tliltocatl albopilosus
- Euathlus angustus (Valerio, 1980) → Sericopelma angustum
- Euathlus chilensis (Molina, 1810) → Phrixotrichus scrofa
- Euathlus emilia (White, 1856) → Brachypelma emilia
- Euathlus fossorius (Valerio, 1980) → Sandinista lanceolatum
- Euathlus mesomelas (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892) → Megaphobema mesomelas
- Euathlus pallidus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) → Aphonopelma pallidum
- Euathlus peruvianus (Schmidt, 2007) → Thrixopelma peruvianum
- Euathlus pulcherrimaklaasi (Schmidt, 1991 ) → Cyclosternum pulcherrimaklaasi (Nomen dubium)
- Euathlus sabulosus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) → Tliltocatl sabulosus
- Euathlus scrofa (Molina, 1782) → Phrixotrichus scrofa
- Euathlus smithi (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) → Brachypelma smithi
- Euathlus vagans (Ausserer, 1875) → Tliltocatl vagans
- Euathlus vulpinus (Karsch, 1880) → Phrixotrichus vulpinus
- Euathlus vulpinus ater (Donoso, 1957) → Phrixotrichus vulpinus ater (Nomen dubium)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2021). "Gen. Euathlus Ausserer, 1875". World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ a b Perafán, C.; Pérez-Miles, F. (2014). "The Andean tarantulas Euathlus Ausserer, 1875, Paraphysa Simon, 1892 and Phrixotrichus Simon, 1889 (Araneae: Theraphosidae): phylogenetic analysis, genera redefinition and new species descriptions". Journal of Natural History. 48 (39–40): 2397. doi:10.1080/00222933.2014.902142. S2CID 84369662.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Quispe-Colca, Oscar M.; Ferretti, Nelson (2021-11-01). "First record of the tarantula genus Euathlus (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae) in Peru, with the description of a threatened new species". Iheringia. Série Zoologia. 111. doi:10.1590/1678-4766e2021026. hdl:11336/150361. ISSN 0073-4721. S2CID 240469531.
- ^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 150.
- ^ Schmidt, G. (1991). "Revision der Gattung Megaphobema (Araneida: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae)". Arachnologischer Anzeiger. 13: 12.
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