Holothele

Holothele is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1879.[4] Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders, it was transferred to the tarantulas in 1980.[5]

Holothele
Holothele incei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Genus:	Holothele Karsch, 1879[1]
Type species
H. longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
Species
5, see text
Synonyms[1]
Dryptopelmides Strand, 1907[2] Stichoplastus Simon, 1889[3]

Species

As of March 2020 it contains five species, found in the West Indies and northern South America:[1]

• Holothele culebrae (Petrunkevitch, 1929) – Puerto Rico
• Holothele denticulata (Franganillo, 1930) – Cuba
• Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875) (type) – Panama, Venezuela, Bolivia, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil
• Holothele shoemakeri (Petrunkevitch, 1926) – US Virgin Islands (St. Thomas)
• Holothele sulfurensis Maréchal, 2005 – Guadeloupe

In synonymy:

• H. ludwigi (Strand, 1907) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
• H. ravida (Simon, 1889) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
• H. recta Karsch, 1879 = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
• H. rondoni (Lucas & Bücherl, 1972) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
• H. sanguiniceps (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)

See also

• List of Theraphosidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Holothele Karsch, 1879". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
2. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 152.
3. Rudloff, J.-P. (1997). "Revision der Gattung Holothele Karsch, 1879 nebst Aufstellung einer neuen Gattung Stichoplastoris gen. nov. (Araneae, Theraphosidae) und Wiedereinsetzung einiger weiterer Gattungen der Mygalomorphae". Arachnologisches Magazin. 5 (2): 10.
4. Karsch, F. (1879). "Arachnologische Beiträge". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. 52: 534–562.
5. Raven, R. J. (1980). "The evolution and biogeography of the mygalomorph spider family Hexathelidae (Araneae, Chelicerata)". Journal of Arachnology. 8: 254.