Holothele is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1879. Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders, it was transferred to the tarantulas in 1980.
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.
Species
it contains six species, found in the West Indies and in the north of South America:
- Holothele culebrae <small>(Petrunkevitch, 1929)</small> â Puerto Rico
- Holothele denticulata <small>(Franganillo, 1930)</small> â Cuba
- Holothele longipes <small>(L. Koch, 1875)</small> (type) â Panama, Venezuela, Bolivia, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil
- Holothele maddeni <small>(Esposito & Agnarsson, 2014)</small> - Dominican Republic
- Holothele shoemakeri <small>(Petrunkevitch, 1926)</small> â US Virgin Islands (St. Thomas)
- Holothele sulfurensis <small>Maréchal, 2005</small> â Guadeloupe
In synonymy
- H. ludwigi <small>(Strand, 1907)</small> = Holothele longipes <small>(L. Koch, 1875)</small>
- H. ravida <small>(Simon, 1889)</small> = Holothele longipes <small>(L. Koch, 1875)</small>
- H. recta <small>Karsch, 1879</small> = Holothele longipes <small>(L. Koch, 1875)</small>
- H. rondoni <small>(Lucas & Bücherl, 1972)</small> = Holothele longipes <small>(L. Koch, 1875)</small>
- H. sanguiniceps <small>(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899)</small> = Holothele longipes <small>(L. Koch, 1875)</small>
Transferred to other genera
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