Guyruita

Guyruita
Guyruita cerrado
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Genus:	Guyruita Guadanucci, Lucas, Indicatti & Yamamoto, 2007[1]
Type species
G. cerrado Guadanucci, Lucas, Indicatti & Yamamoto, 2007
Species
6, see text

Guyruita is a genus of South American tarantulas that was first described by J. P. L. Guadanucci in 2007.[2]

Species

As of March 2020^[update] it contains six species, found in Venezuela and Brazil:[1]

• Guyruita atlantica Guadanucci, Lucas, Indicatti & Yamamoto, 2007 – Brazil
• Guyruita cerrado Guadanucci, Lucas, Indicatti & Yamamoto, 2007 (type) – Brazil
• Guyruita giupponii Fukushima & Bertani, 2018 – Brazil
• Guyruita isae Fukushima & Bertani, 2018 – Brazil
• Guyruita metallophila Fonseca-Ferreira, Zampaulo & Guadanucci, 2017 – Brazil
• Guyruita waikoshiemi (Bertani & Araújo, 2006) – Venezuela, Brazil

See also

• List of Theraphosidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Guyruita Guadanucci, Lucas, Indicatti & Yamamoto, 2007". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
2. Guadanucci, J. P. L.; et al. (2007). "Description of Guyruita gen. nov. and two new species (Ischnocolinae, Theraphosidae)". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 24 (4): 991–996. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752007000400015.