Euathlus is a genus of South American Theraphosidae that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1875.
Diagnosis
Males own a
palpal bulb with two
prolateral keels, with the tip curved retrolaterally. The tibial apophyses has retrolateral spines and a spine on the retrolateral branch which almost reached the apex. And a urticating patch in the center of the
opisthosoma, which own mainly type 3 and 4
. Females also can be distinguished by two 4 sided
receptacles, with sphere like chambers.
Species
it contains fourteen species, found in [[Argentina]], [[Chile]] and [[Peru]]:
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Euathlus affinis (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
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Euathlus antai Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2014 – Chile
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Euathlus atacama Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2014 – Chile
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Euathlus condorito Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2014 – Chile
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Euathlus diamante Ferretti, 2015 – Argentina
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Euathlus grismadoi Ríos-Tamayo, 2020 – Argentina
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Euathlus manicata (Simon, 1892) – Chile
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Euathlus mauryi Ríos-Tamayo, 2020 – Argentina
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Euathlus pampa Ríos-Tamayo, 2020 – Argentina
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Euathlus parvulus (Pocock, 1903) – Chile
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Euathlus sagei Ferretti, 2015 – Argentina
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Euathlus tenebrarum Ferretti, 2015 – Argentina
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Euathlus truculentus L. Koch, 1875 (Type species) – Chile, Argentina
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Euathlus vanessae Quispe-Colca & Ferretti, 2021 – Peru
In synonymy
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E. phryxotrichoides (Strand, 1907) = Euathlus truculentus
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Nomen dubium
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Euathlus roseus (Guérin, 1838) - Chile
Transferred to other genera
See also
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List of Theraphosidae species
