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Genus of spiders

Harpathele
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Dipluridae
Genus: Harpathele
Wermelinger-Moreira, Pedroso, Castanheira & Baptista, 2024
Type species
H. gymnognatha
(Bertkau, 1880)
Species

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.

Description

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.

Behaviour

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.

Species

As of November 2024, it contains 3 species:

References

  1. "Gen. Harpathele Wermelinger-Moreira, Pedroso, Castanheira & Baptista, 2024", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2024-11-08
  2. ^ 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.
Taxon identifiers
Vacrothele
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