Holothele

Holothele is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1879.^[4] Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders, it was transferred to the tarantulas in 1980.^[5]

Holothele
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Genus:	Holothele Karsch, 1879[1]
Type species
H. longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
Species
6, see text
Synonyms[1]
Dryptopelmides Strand, 1907[2] Stichoplastus Simon, 1889[3]

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.^[6]

Species

As of July 2022^[update] it contains six species, found in the West Indies and in the north of South America:^[1]

• Holothele culebrae (Petrunkevitch, 1929) – Puerto Rico
• Holothele denticulata (Franganillo, 1930) – Cuba
• Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875) (type) – Panama, Venezuela, Bolivia, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil
• Holothele maddeni (Esposito & Agnarsson, 2014) - Dominican Republic
• Holothele shoemakeri (Petrunkevitch, 1926) – US Virgin Islands (St. Thomas)
• Holothele sulfurensis Maréchal, 2005 – Guadeloupe

In synonymy

• H. ludwigi (Strand, 1907) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
• H. ravida (Simon, 1889) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
• H. recta Karsch, 1879 = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
• H. rondoni (Lucas & Bücherl, 1972) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)
• H. sanguiniceps (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) = Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875)

Transferred to other genera

• Holothele anomala (Mello-Leitão, 1923) → Proshapalopus anomalus
• Holothele asterix (Valerio, 1980) → Stichoplastoris asterix
• Holothele cervina (Simon, 1889) → Euthycaelus colonica
• Holothele colonica (Simon, 1889) → Euthycaelus colonica
• Holothele culebrae (Petrunkevitch, 1929) → Cyrtopholis culebrae
• Holothele denticulata (Valerio, 1980) → Stichoplastoris denticulatus
• Holothele doeringi (Holmberg, 1881) → Grammostola doeringi
• Holothele elusinus (Valerio, 1980) → Stichoplastoris elusinus
• Holothele incei (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) → Neoholothele incei
• Holothele inflata (Simon, 1889) → Schismatothele inflata
• Holothele kastoni (Caporiacco, 1955) → Schismatothele kastoni
• Holothele lineata (Karsch, 1879) → Schismatothele lineata
• Holothele modesta (Simon, 1889) → Schismatothele modesta
• Holothele obelix (Valerio, 1980) → Stichoplastoris obelix
• Holothele obsoleta (Franganillo, 1935) → Cyrtopholis obsoleta
• Holothele proxima (Mello-Leitão, 1923) → Acanthoscurria proxima (Nomen dubnium)
• Holothele sericeus (Simon, 1903) → Scopelobates sericeus
• Holothele spinulosa (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) → Acentropelma spinulosum
• Holothele steini (Simon, 1889) → Trichopelma steini
• Holothele variegata (Caporiacco, 1955) → Hapalopus variegatus
• Holothele vellardi Rudloff, 1997 → Neoholothele incei
• Holothele waikoshiemi Bertani & Araújo, 2006 → Yanomamius waikoshiemi

See also

• List of Theraphosidae species