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Trinidad Pink Tarantula

Holothele longipes

Classification

Order
Araneae

Holothele is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1879. Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders, it was transferred to the tarantulas in 1980. Diagnosis They can be distinguished by the lack of urticating hairs, tarsus 4 being pseudo segmented.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 5