Plesiopelma

Plesiopelma is a genus of South American tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1901.[3]

Plesiopelma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Genus:	Plesiopelma Pocock, 1901[1]
Type species
P. myodes Pocock, 1901
Species
11, see text
Synonyms[1]
Ceropelma Mello-Leitão, 1923[2]

Species

As of May 2020 it contains eleven species, found in Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela, and Argentina:[1]

• Plesiopelma aspidosperma Ferretti & Barneche, 2013 – Argentina
• Plesiopelma gertschi (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
• Plesiopelma imperatrix Piza, 1976 – Brazil
• Plesiopelma insulare (Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
• Plesiopelma longisternale (Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1942) – Argentina, Uruguay
• Plesiopelma minense (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
• Plesiopelma myodes Pocock, 1901 (type) – Uruguay
• Plesiopelma paganoi Ferretti & Barneche, 2013 – Argentina
• Plesiopelma physopus (Mello-Leitão, 1926) – Brazil
• Plesiopelma rectimanum (Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
• Plesiopelma semiaurantiacum (Simon, 1897) – Paraguay, Uruguay

Formerly included:

• P. flavohirtum (Simon, 1889) (Transferred to Catanduba)

See also

• List of Theraphosidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Plesiopelma Pocock, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
2. Pérez-Miles, F.; et al. (1996). "Systematic revision and cladistic analysis of Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae)". Mygalomorph. 1: 55.
3. Pocock, R. I. (1901). "Some new and old genera of S.-American Avicularidae". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 8 (7): 540–555. doi:10.1080/03745480109443359.