Diplura (spider)

Diplura
Diplura macrura
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Dipluridae
Genus:	Diplura C. L. Koch, 1850 [1]
Type species
D. macrura (C. L. Koch, 1841)
Species
17, see text
Synonyms [1]
Achetopus Tullgren, 1905 [2] Euharmonicon Mello-Leitão, 1920 [2] Evagrella Mello-Leitão, 1923 [2] Melodeus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 [3] ParathalerotheleCanals, 1931 [4] Prosharmonicon Mello-Leitão, 1938 [5] Pseudohermachura Mello-Leitão, 1927 [5] Taunayella Mello-Leitão, 1923 [2] Thalerothele Bertkau, 1880 [2]

Diplura is a genus of South American curtain web spiders that was first described by C. L. Koch in 1850. ^[6] It is found in South America and Cuba belonging to the subfamily Diplurinae. ^[1]

Description

Species of Diplura possess a lyra on their prolateral maxillae. Diplura species can be distinguished from Trechona sp. by the number of setae on this lyra. They differ from Harmonicon sp. by the leg formula (1423 in Harmonicon, rather than 4123 in other genera of the subfamily) and the shape of the lyra bristles.^{[ citation needed ]}

Species

As of November 2024 ^[update] it contains 17 species: ^[1]

• Diplura argentina (Canals, 1931) – Argentina
• Diplura catharinensis (Mello-Leitão, 1927) – Brazil
• Diplura erlandi (Tullgren, 1905) – Bolivia
• Diplura garbei (Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
• Diplura garleppi (Simon, 1892) – Bolivia
• Diplura lineata (Lucas, 1857) – Brazil
• Diplura macrura (C. L. Koch, 1841) (type) – Brazil
• Diplura mapinguari Pedroso, Giupponi & Baptista, 2018 – Brazil
• Diplura nigra (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Brazil
• Diplura paraguayensis (Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1940) – Paraguay, Argentina
• Diplura parallela (Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
• Diplura petrunkevitchi (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
• Diplura riveti (Simon, 1903) – Ecuador
• Diplura rodrigoi Pedroso, Giupponi & Baptista, 2018 – Brazil
• Diplura sanguinea (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Brazil
• Diplura studiosa (Mello-Leitão, 1920) – Brazil
• Diplura taunayi (Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Diplura C. L. Koch, 1850". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-01.
2. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 74–160.
3. Simon, Eugène (1903). Histoire naturelle des araignées (2nd ed.). Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
4. Schiapelli, R. D.; Gerschman de P., B. S. (1968). "El género Achetopus, Tullgren 1905 (Araneae, Dipluridae)". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales C. 28: 185.
5. Bücherl, W. (1962). "Estudos sistemáticos sôbre aranhas caranguejeiras. I. Revisão dos gêneros Pseudohermachura Mello-Leitão 1927 (Ctenizidae, Ctenizinae, Nemesieae) e Prosharmonicon Mello-Leitão 1937 (Dipluridae, Diplurinae, Diplureae, Trechonini)". Arquivos de Higiene e Saúde Pública. 27: 261.
6. Koch, C. L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561.

External links

• "Diplura". The Encyclopedia of Life .

Further reading

• Ausserer, A. (1871a). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor)." Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 21: 117-224.
• Baptista, R. L. C. and D. R., Pedroso (2005). Diplura lineata (Lucas, 1857): redescrição, sinonímias e notas sobre distribuição (Araneae: Dipluridae): 239.
• Bücherl, W., A Timotheo da Costa & S. Lucas (1971). "Revisão de alguns tipos de aranhas caranguejeiras (Orthognatha) estabelecidos por Candido de Mello-Leitão e depositados no Museu Nacional do Rio." Mems Inst. Butantan 35: 117-138.
• Cambridge, F. O. P.-. (1896). "On the Theraphosidae of the lower Amazons: being an account of the new genera and species of this group of spiders discovered during the expedition of the steamship "Faraday" up the river Amazons." Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1896: 716-766.
• Mello-Leitão, C. F. d. (1924b). "Quelques arachnides nouveaux du Bresil." Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 93: 179-187.
• Mello-Leitão, C. F. d. (1941a). "Notas sobre a sistematica das aranhas com descrição de algumas novas especies Sul Americanas." Anais Acad. bras. Cienc. 13: 103-127.
• Mello-Leitão, C. F. d. (1941b). "Catalogo das aranhas da Colombia." Anais Acad. bras. Cienc. 13: 233-300.
• Vollrath, F. (1978). "A close relationship between two spiders (Arachnidae, Araneidae): Curimagua bayano synecious on a Diplura species." Psyche 85: 347-353.