Harpathele
| Harpathele | |
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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: | Dipluridae |
| Genus: | Harpathele Wermelinger-Moreira, Pedroso, Castanheira & Baptista, 2024[1] |
| Type species | |
| H. gymnognatha (Bertkau, 1880)
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| Species | |
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3, see text | |
Harpathele is a genus of curtain-web spiders that was first described by Gabriel Wermelinger-Moreira, Denis Rafael Pedroso, Pedro de Souza Castanheira, and Renner Luiz Cerquiera Baptista in 2024. It is known only from the Southeast region of Brazil.[2]
Description
[edit]They are relatively small spiders for their family, with males measuring 14.6-21.4 mm long, and females measuring 16.0-21.7 mm long. They have a brown carapace, dark brown to orange brown legs, and an oval abdomen longer than it is wide that varies from dark brown to dirty yellow.[2]
Behaviour
[edit]Harpathele are presumably nocturnal, fossorial spiders like other members of Dipluridae. Specimens were collected from under rotten logs on the forest floor, without any webs.[2]
Species
[edit]As of November 2024[update], it contains 3 species:
- Harpathele cariacica Wermelinger-Moreira, Pedroso, Castanheira & Baptista, 2024 – Brazil
- Harpathele gymnognatha (Bertkau, 1880) (type) – Brazil
- Harpathele salinas palpator Wermelinger-Moreira, Pedroso, Castanheira & Baptista, 2024 – Brazil
References
[edit]- ^ "Gen. Harpathele Wermelinger-Moreira, Pedroso, Castanheira & Baptista, 2024", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2024-11-08
- ^ a b c Wermelinger-Moreira, Gabriel; Pedroso, Denis Rafael; Castanheira, Pedro de Souza; Cerqueira Baptista, Renner Luiz (9 July 2024). "A new genus of lyrate curtain-web spiders (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae) from southeastern Brazil, with two new species and revalidation of a formerly described species". Arachnology. 19 (8). doi:10.13156/arac.2024.19.8.1060. Retrieved 8 November 2024.