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]

Spinosatibiapalpus
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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

Species

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

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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.

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