Eupalaestrus

Eupalaestrus
Eupalaestrus campestratus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Genus:	Eupalaestrus Pocock, 1901[1]
Type species
E. campestratus (Simon, 1891)
Species
6, see text
Synonyms[1]
Weyenberghiana Mello-Leitão, 1941[2]

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

Species

As of October 2021^[update] it contains six species, found in Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil:[1]

• Eupalaestrus campestratus (Simon, 1891) (type) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
• Eupalaestrus crassimetatarsis Borges, Paladini & Bertani, 2021 – Brazil, Argentina
• Eupalaestrus larae Ferretti & Barneche, 2012 – Argentina
• Eupalaestrus roccoi Borges, Paladini & Bertani, 2021 – Brazil
• Eupalaestrus spinosissimus Mello-Leitão, 1923 – Brazil
• Eupalaestrus weijenberghi (Thorell, 1894) – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina

In synonymy:

• E. guyanus (Simon, 1892) = Eupalaestrus campestratus (Simon, 1891)
• E. holophaeus (Mello-Leitão, 1923, removed from S of Vitalius cesteri (Mello-Leitão, 1923), contra Bücherl, 1947a: 258, sub Pamphobeteus) = Eupalaestrus spinosissimus Mello-Leitão, 1923
• E. pugilator Pocock, 1901 = Eupalaestrus campestratus (Simon, 1891)
• E. riparius (Schmidt & Bolle, 2008) = Eupalaestrus weijenberghi (Thorell, 1894)
• E. saltator (Pocock, 1903) = Eupalaestrus weijenberghi (Thorell, 1894)
• E. tarsicrassus Bücherl, 1947 = Eupalaestrus spinosissimus Mello-Leitão, 1923
• E. tennuitarsus Bücherl, 1947 = Eupalaestrus campestratus (Simon, 1891)

See also

• List of Theraphosidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2021). "Gen. Eupalaestrus Pocock, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
2. Gerschman de P., B. S.; Schiapelli, R. D. (1979). "Estudio de los ejemplares tipos de Lasiodora weijenberghi Thorell, 1894 y Eurypelma minax Thorell, 1894 (Araneae, Theraphosidae)". Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina. 37: 86.
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.