Holothele
Sign in to saveHolothele is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1879. Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders, it was transferred to the tarantulas in 1980.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 16
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Collections
- MCZ, MPEG, USNM
- Recorded in
- United States, Cuba, Brasil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Theraphosidae
- Image
- HOLOTHELE INCEI HEMBRA GRAVIDA.jpg
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- taxon name
- Holothele
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- genus
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- Category:Holothele
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- Transferred to other genera
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Holothele is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1879. Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders, it was transferred to the tarantulas in 1980.
== Diagnosis == They can be distinguished by the lack of urticating hairs, tarsus 4 being pseudo segmented. The tarsal claws own a row of teeth, and a labium with around 90 cuspules.
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