Hapalopus

Hapalopus
Hapalopus triseriatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Hapalopus
Ausserer, 1875
Type species
H. formosus
Ausserer, 1875
Species

8, see text

Hapalopus is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1875.

Diagnosis

They own a ring like keel on the palpal bulb, the tibial apophysis with convergent branches and a spermatheca having a membrane like base. They also lack stridulatory hairs and they own numerous labial cuspules. Specimens are further differentiated from the closely-related Notahapalopus genus by a single round spermathecal receptacle, which is Y-shaped in Notahapalopus.

Species

As of November 2025 it contains 8 species, found in South America and Panama:

In synonymy

Nomen dubium

Transferred to other genera

References

  1. 1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2025). "Gen. Hapalopus Ausserer, 1875". World Spider Catalog Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-12-21.
  2. ↑ Ausserer, A. (1875). "Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor)". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 25: 125–206.
  3. ↑ Perdomo, Cintya; Panzera, Alejandra; Pérez-Miles, Fernando (2009). "Hapalopus aymara a new species of tarantula from Bolivia (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Theraphosinae)". Iheringia. Série Zoologia. 99: 53–55. doi:10.1590/S0073-47212009000100007. ISSN 0073-4721.
  4. ↑ Sherwood, Danniela; Gabriel, Ray; Osorio, Luis M.; Benavides, Léiner; Peñaherrera-R., Pedro; Hörweg, Christoph; Brescovit, Antonio D.; Lucas, Sylvia M. (2024). "Spot the difference: on the genus Hapalopus Ausserer, 1875 in Colombia and a new related genus from Brazil and Bolivia (Araneae: Theraphosidae)". ZooNova. 32: 1–44. doi:10.5281/zenodo.11458605.