Stromatopelma

Stromatopelma is a genus of African tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1881.^[2] They are renowned for their potent venom that uses stromatoxin peptides to induce medically significant effects.^[3]

Stromatopelma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Genus:	Stromatopelma Karsch, 1881[1]
Type species
S. calceatum (Fabricius, 1793)
Species
5, see text
Synonyms
Hyarachne Thorell, 1899 Scodra Becker, 1879

Species

As of May 2020^[update] it contains five species and one subspecies, found in Africa:^[1]

• Stromatopelma batesi (Pocock, 1902) – Cameroon, Congo
• Stromatopelma calceatum (Fabricius, 1793) (type) – West Africa
  • Stromatopelma c. griseipes (Pocock, 1897) – West Africa
• Stromatopelma fumigatum (Pocock, 1900) – Equatorial Guinea (Mbini)
• Stromatopelma pachypoda (Strand, 1908) – Cameroon
• Stromatopelma satanas (Berland, 1917) – Gabon, Congo

In synonymy:

• Stromatopelma alicapillatum Karsch, 1881 = Stromatopelma calceatum
• Stromatopelma aussereri (Becker, 1879) = Stromatopelma calceatum
• Stromatopelma brachypoda (Pocock, 1897) = Stromatopelma calceatum
• Stromatopelma horrida (Thorell, 1899) = Stromatopelma calceatum
• Stromatopelma straeleni (Roewer, 1953) = Stromatopelma batesi

See also

• List of Theraphosidae species