Yanomamius is a genus of South American tarantulas first erected by Rogério Bertani and M. Q. Almeida in 2021 for two newly discovered species and one previously described species from Brazil.[2] In one of Bertani's prior studies, he investigated a tarantula collected by the Yanomami as a source of food. Based on the limited material available for study (two adult females and one immature spider) the species was placed into Holothele.[3] The next year, it was moved to newly erected genus Guyruita due, in part, to the multi-lobed shape of its spermathecae.[4] When the first male was found and described, the diagnostic characteristics didn't match that of Holothele or Guyruita, so a new genus was erected for Y. waikoshiemi and three other closely related species.[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: | Yanomamius Bertani & Almeida, 2021[1] |
| Type species | |
| Y. franciscoi Bertani & Almeida, 2021
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Species
editAs of April 2022[update] it contains four species:[1]
- Y. franciscoi Bertani & Almeida, 2021 (type) – Brazil
- Y. neblina Bertani & Almeida, 2021 – Brazil
- Y. raonii Bertani & Almeida, 2021 – Brazil
- Y. waikoshiemi (Bertani & Araújo, 2006) – Venezuela
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Yanomamius Bertani & Almeida, 2021". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
- ^ a b Bertani, R.; Almeida, M. Q. (2021). "Yanomamius n. gen., a new genus of tarantula from Brazilian and Venezuelan Amazon (Araneae, Theraphosidae), with description of three new species". Zootaxa. 4933 (3): 324–340. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4933.3.2. PMID 33756785. S2CID 232340444.
- ^ Bertani, R.; Araújo, Y. (2006). "A new species of Holothele Karsch, 1879 (Theraphosidae, Ischnocolinae) from Venezuela". Revista Ibérica de Aracnología. 12: 13–16.
- ^ Guadanucci, J. P. L.; Lucas, S. M.; Indicatti, R. P.; et al. (2007). "Description of Guyruita gen. nov. and two new species (Ischnocolinae, Theraphosidae)". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 24 (4): 991–996. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752007000400015.
Further reading
edit- Fukushima, C. S.; Bertani, R. (2018). "Two new species of Guyruita Guadanucci et al., 2007 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Brazil". Zootaxa. 4370 (4): 395–408. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4370.4.5. PMID 29689836.
- Carvalho, L. S.; Martins, P. H.; Schneider, M. C.; et al. (2017). "New records of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from the state of Roraima, northern Brazil". Check List. 13 (1, 2040): 1–23. doi:10.15560/13.1.2040.