Yanomamius | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
Family: | Theraphosidae |
Genus: |
Yanomamius Bertani & Almeida, 2021 [1] |
Type species | |
Y. franciscoi Bertani & Almeida, 2021
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Species | |
4, see text |
Yanomamius is a genus of South American tarantulas first erected by Rogério Bertani and M. Q. Almeida in 2021 for two newly discovered species and one previously described species from Brazil. [2] In one of Bertani's prior studies, he investigated a tarantula collected by the Yanomami as a source of food. Based on the limited material available for study- two adult females and one immature spider- the species was placed into Holothele. [3] The next year, it was moved to newly erected genus Guyruita due, in part, to the multi-lobed shape of its spermathecae. [4] When the first male was found and described, the diagnostic characteristics didn't match that of Holothele or Guyruita, so a new genus was erected for Y. waikoshiemi and three other closely related species. [2]
As of April 2022 [update] it contains four species: [1]
Yanomamius | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
Family: | Theraphosidae |
Genus: |
Yanomamius Bertani & Almeida, 2021 [1] |
Type species | |
Y. franciscoi Bertani & Almeida, 2021
| |
Species | |
4, see text |
Yanomamius is a genus of South American tarantulas first erected by Rogério Bertani and M. Q. Almeida in 2021 for two newly discovered species and one previously described species from Brazil. [2] In one of Bertani's prior studies, he investigated a tarantula collected by the Yanomami as a source of food. Based on the limited material available for study- two adult females and one immature spider- the species was placed into Holothele. [3] The next year, it was moved to newly erected genus Guyruita due, in part, to the multi-lobed shape of its spermathecae. [4] When the first male was found and described, the diagnostic characteristics didn't match that of Holothele or Guyruita, so a new genus was erected for Y. waikoshiemi and three other closely related species. [2]
As of April 2022 [update] it contains four species: [1]