Spinosatibiapalpus

Spinosatibiapalpus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Genus:	Spinosatibiapalpus Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 [1]
Type species
Metriopelma trinitatis (Pocock, 1903)
Species
5, see text

Spinosatibiapalpus is a genus of tarantulas erected by Gabriel and Sherwood in 2020 for a newly discovered species and two other previously described species bearing a unique palpal bulb morphology. ^[2] The name is a reference to the spines found on the fourth section of the pedipalp in adult males. ^[2] This distinctive feature was also found in Pseudhapalopus species, but because it is never mentioned in the original description of that genus, ^[3] Gabriel and Sherwood called into question the validity of Pseudohapalopus, and moved all its species except P. aculeatus, known only from a single male found in Bolivia in 1907. ^{[3] [1]} It is impossible to place P. aculeatus because the holotype was destroyed when the museum housing it was bombed during World War II, and it has been declared as nomen dubium. ^{[4] [1]}

Species

As of July 2022 ^[update] it contains 5 species: ^[1]

• Spinosatibiapalpus bora Sherwood & Gabriel, 2021 - Peru
• Spinosatibiapalpus cambrai Gabriel & Sherwood, 2022 - Panama
• Spinosatibiapalpus spinulopalpus (Schmidt & Weinmann, 1997) - Colombia
• Spinosatibiapalpus tansleyi Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 - Trinidad
• Spinosatibiapalpus trinitatis (Pocock, 1903) (type) - Trinidad

See also

• Pseudhapalopus
• Hapalopus
• List of Theraphosidae species

References

1. "Gen. Spinosatibiapalpus Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2022-04-06.
2. Gabriel, R.; Sherwood, D. (2020). "Revised taxonomic placement of Pseudhapalopus Strand, 1907, with notes on some related taxa (Araneae: Theraphosidae)" . Arachnology. 18 (4): 301–316. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.301.
3. Strand, E. (1907). "Vorläufige Diagnosen afrikanischer und südamerikanischer Spinnen" [Preliminary diagnoses of African and South American spiders]. Zoologischer Anzeiger (in German). 31: 525–558.
4. Nentwig, W.; Blick, T.; Gloor, D.; Jäger, P.; Kropf, C. (2020). "How to deal with destroyed type material? The case of Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 59 (59): 22–29. doi: 10.30963/aramit5904 .

Further reading

• Sherwood, D.; Guadanucci, J. P. L.; Gabriel, R. (2022). "First description of the female of the Trinidadian theraphosine Spinosatibiapalpus trinitatis (Pocock, 1903) (Araneae: Theraphosidae)". Taxonomy. 2 (1): 41–47. doi: 10.3390/taxonomy2010003 .

• Sherwood, D.; Gabriel, R. (2021). "A new species of Spinosatibiapalpus Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 from Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae)". Revista Ibérica de Aracnología. 38: 87–91.

• Nentwig, W.; Blick, T.; Gloor, D.; et al. (2019). "Tackling taxonomic redundancy in spiders: the infraspecific spider taxa described by Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 58: 29–51. doi: 10.30963/aramit5809 .

• Esche, S. (2014). "Bestimmung einer Theraphosinae mit Unterscheidung von Cyclosternum und Pseudhapalopus" [Identification of a Theraphosinae distinguishing between Cyclosternum and Pseudhapalopus]. Arthropoda Popularis (in German). 3 (1): 18–26.

• Gabriel, R. (2016). "Revised taxonomic placement of the species in the Central American genera Davus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892, Metriopelma Becker, 1878, and Schizopelma F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897, with comments on species in related genera (Araneae: Theraphosidae)" . Arachnology. 17 (2): 61–92. doi:10.13156/arac.2006.17.2.61.