''Schismatothele'' is a
genus
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of South American
tarantulas
Tarantulas comprise a group of large and often hairy spiders of the family Theraphosidae. , 1,040 species have been identified, with 156 genera. The term "tarantula" is usually used to describe members of the family Theraphosidae, although ...
that was first described by
Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1879.
Species
it contains eight species, found in
Venezuela
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,
Colombia, and
Brazil
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:
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Schismatothele benedettii''
Panzera, Perdomo & Pérez-Miles, 2011 –
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
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Schismatothele hacaritama''
Perafán, Valencia-Cuéllar & Guadanucci, 2019 –
Colombia
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Schismatothele inflata''
(Simon
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* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...
, 1889) –
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
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Schismatothele kastoni''
( Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
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Schismatothele lineata''
Karsch, 1879 (
type) – Venezuela
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Schismatothele modesta''
(Simon, 1889) – Colombia
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Schismatothele olsoni''
Guadanucci, Perafán & Valencia-Cuéllar, 2019 – Colombia, Venezuela
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Schismatothele weinmanni''
Guadanucci, Perafán & Valencia-Cuéllar, 2019 – Colombia
See also
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List of Theraphosidae species
This page lists all described genera and species of the spider family Theraphosidae. , the World Spider Catalog accepts 1041 species in 156 genera:
A ''Acanthopelma''
''Acanthopelma'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897
* ''Acanthopelma beccarii'' Ca ...
References
Theraphosidae genera
Spiders of South America
Theraphosidae
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