Stichoplastoris

Stichoplastoris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Genus:	Stichoplastoris Rudloff, 1997 [1]
Type species
S. obelix (Valerio, 1980)
Species
8, see text

Stichoplastoris is a genus of Central American tarantulas that was first described by J.-P. Rudloff in 1997. ^[2]

Species

As of May 2020 ^[update] it contains eight species, found in Panama, Belize, Costa Rica, and El Salvador: ^[1]

• Stichoplastoris angustatus (Kraus, 1955) – El Salvador
• Stichoplastoris asterix (Valerio, 1980) – Costa Rica
• Stichoplastoris denticulatus (Valerio, 1980) – Costa Rica
• Stichoplastoris elusinus (Valerio, 1980) – Costa Rica
• Stichoplastoris longistylus (Kraus, 1955) – El Salvador
• Stichoplastoris obelix (Valerio, 1980) (type) – Belize, Costa Rica
• Stichoplastoris schusterae (Kraus, 1955) – El Salvador
• Stichoplastoris stylipus (Valerio, 1982) – Costa Rica, Panama

See also

• List of Theraphosidae species

References

1. "Gen. Stichoplastoris Rudloff, 1997". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2020-06-08.
2. 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): 1–19.