Harpathele

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Harpathele
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Dipluridae
Genus: Harpathele
Wermelinger-Moreira, Pedroso, Castanheira & Baptista, 2024 [1]
Type species
H. gymnognatha
(Bertkau, 1880)
Species

3, see text

Harpathele is a genus of curtain-web spiders that was first described by Gabriel Wermelinger-Moreira, Denis Rafael Pedroso, Pedro de Souza Castanheira, and Renner Luiz Cerqueira Baptista in 2024. It is known only from the Southeast region of Brazil. [2]

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Description

They are relatively small spiders for their family, with males measuring 14.6-21.4 mm long, and females measuring 16.0-21.7 mm long. They have a brown carapace, dark brown to orange brown legs, and an oval abdomen longer than it is wide that varies from dark brown to dirty yellow. [2]

Behaviour

Harpathele are presumably nocturnal, fossorial spiders like other members of Dipluridae. Specimens were collected from under rotten logs on the forest floor, without any webs. [2]

Species

As of November 2024, it contains 3 species:

References

  1. ↑ "Gen. Harpathele Wermelinger-Moreira, Pedroso, Castanheira & Baptista, 2024", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2024-11-08
  2. 1 2 3 Wermelinger-Moreira, Gabriel; Pedroso, Denis Rafael; Castanheira, Pedro de Souza; Cerqueira Baptista, Renner Luiz (9 July 2024). "A new genus of lyrate curtain-web spiders (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae) from southeastern Brazil, with two new species and revalidation of a formerly described species" . Arachnology. 19 (8). doi:10.13156/arac.2024.19.8.1060 . Retrieved 8 November 2024.
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