Chaetopelma Ausserer, 1871

Zamani, Alireza & West, Rick C., 2023, A new species of Chaetopelma Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Iran, ZooKeys 1174, pp. 75-84 : 75

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1174.109135

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scientific name

Chaetopelma Ausserer, 1871
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Genus Chaetopelma Ausserer, 1871 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species.

Chaetopelma aegyptiaca Ausserer, 1871 by subsequent designation of Simon (1892); a junior synonym of Ch. olivaceum (C.L. Koch, 1842).

Diagnosis and description.

See Guadanucci and Gallon (2008).

Composition.

Eight species: Ch. altugkadirorum Gallon, Gabriel & Tansley, 2012 [Syria, Turkey]; Ch. concolor (Simon, 1873) [Turkey, Syria, Egypt]; Ch. karlamani Vollmer, 1997 [Cyprus]; Ch. lymberakisi Chatzaki & Komnenov, 2019 [Crete]; Ch. olivaceum (C.L. Koch, 1842) [Sudan, Middle East]; Ch. persianum sp. nov. [Iran]; Ch. turkesi Topçu & Demircan, 2014 [Turkey]; Ch. webborum Smith, 1990 [Cameroon].

Distribution.

Crete to northwestern Iran, southward to northern Sudan (Fig. 5 View Figure 5 ). One species has been described from Cameroon, although it is clearly misplaced in Chaetopelma (see ‘Discussion’).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Theraphosidae