Heterothele is a genus of South American and African tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1879.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Theraphosidae |
| Genus: | Heterothele Karsch, 1879[1] |
| Type species | |
| H. honesta Karsch, 1879
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10, see text | |
Species
editAs of March 2020[update] it contains ten species, found in Africa and Argentina:[1]
- Heterothele affinis Laurent, 1946 – Congo, Tanzania
- Heterothele atropha Simon, 1907 – Congo
- Heterothele caudicula (Simon, 1886) – Argentina
- Heterothele darcheni (Benoit, 1966) – Gabon
- Heterothele decemnotata (Simon, 1891) – Congo
- Heterothele gabonensis (Lucas, 1858) – Gabon
- Heterothele honesta Karsch, 1879 (type) – Angola
- Heterothele hullwilliamsi Smith, 1990 – Cameroon
- Heterothele ogbunikia Smith, 1990 – Nigeria
- Heterothele spinipes Pocock, 1897 – Tanzania
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Heterothele Karsch, 1879". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
- ^ Karsch, F. (1879). "Zwei neue afrikanische Vogelspinnen". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1879: 63–65.
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