Pachistopelma is a genus of Brazilian tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1901.[2] As of May 2020[update] it contains two species, found in Brazil: P. bromelicola and P. rufonigrum.[1] They have a straight front eye row and males have a spinose spur on the first tibia. Females have two spermathecae lacking lobes or constrictions that have a slight curvature in the middle.[3]
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| Female Pachistopelma rufonigrum in habitat; scale bar = 10 millimetres (0.39 in) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Theraphosidae |
| Genus: | Pachistopelma Pocock, 1901[1] |
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| P. rufonigrum Pocock, 1901
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Pachistopelma Pocock, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ^ Pocock, R. I. (1901). "Some new and old genera of S.-American Avicularidae". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 8 (7): 540–555. doi:10.1080/03745480109443359.
- ^ Bertani, R. (2012). "Revision, cladistic analysis and biogeography of Typhochlaena C. L. Koch, 1859, Pachistopelma Pocock, 1901 and Iridopelma Pocock, 1901 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae)". ZooKeys (230): 1–94. Bibcode:2012ZooK..230....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.230.3500. PMC 3494022. PMID 23166476.
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