Cardiopelma is a genus of spiders in the family Theraphosidae. It was first described in 1999 by Vol. , it contains only one species, Cardiopelma mascatum, known only from Mexico, in the state of Oaxaca.
Cardiopelma is a genus of spiders in the family Theraphosidae. It was first described in 1999 by Vol. , it contains only one species, Cardiopelma mascatum, known only from Mexico, in the state of Oaxaca.
== Description == Cardiopelma mascatum also known as the Orange Flame Rump Tarantula, is a tarantula which females live up to 16 years, while males only up to 6. Their carapace is a copper-like orange color, with a black triangle covering the eyes. The opisthosoma is black with a heart-shaped copper-colored urticating patch in the center, whereas the bottom of the opisthosoma is orange. Their legs are the same color as the carapace, with the exception of the femur which is black.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).