Neoheterophrictus
Neoheterophrictus is a genus of tarantula in the family Theraphosidae. It comprises seven species, all found in India.[2]
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| Female Neoheterophrictus smithi | |
Scientific classification 
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| : | [[Template:Taxonomy/Neoheterophrictus]] Siliwal & Raven, 2012[1] |
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| Neoheterophrictus crurofulvus Siliwal, Gupta & Raven, 2012[1]
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CharacteristicsEdit
Neoheterophrictus is similar to Heterophrictus and Plesiophrictus, however the females differ by having a different spermathecae structure, which have two receptacles with many lobes/termini at the end. Males are distinguished from Plesiophrictus by the absence of a tegular keel on the male palpal bulb. It occurs in the Western Ghats, India.[3]
EtymologyEdit
The name is a combination of two words neo and heterophrictus, neo in Latin meaning "new" and Heterophrictus being a genus name within the family Theraphosidae.[3][2]
SpeciesEdit
As of December 2015[update], the World Spider Catalog recognized seven species. All are restricted to India.[1]
- Neoheterophrictus amboli Mirza & Sanap, 2014
- Neoheterophrictus bhori (Gravely, 1915)
- Neoheterophrictus crurofulvus Siliwal, Gupta & Raven, 2012
- Neoheterophrictus madraspatanus (Gravely, 1935)
- Neoheterophrictus sahyadri Siliwal, Gupta & Raven, 2012
- Neoheterophrictus smithi Mirza, Bhosale & Sanap, 2014
- Neoheterophrictus uttarakannada Siliwal, Gupta & Raven, 2012
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gen. Neoheterophrictus Siliwal & Raven, 2012", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2015-12-10
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Neoheterophrictus". Tarantupedia.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Siliwal, M., N. Gupta & R. Raven (2012). "A new genus of the family Theraphosidae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae) with description of three new species from the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 4 (14): 3233–3254. doi:10.11609/jott.o3065.3233-54.
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