Chaetopelma altugkadirorum
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Chaetopelma altugkadirorum is a species of tarantula . Its area of distribution is Turkey ( Yayladağı District in Hatay Province ) and Syria . The spider belongs to the terrestrial species. The specific epithet ( altugkadirorum ) honors the Turkish arachnologists Altuğ Kızıltuğ and Kadir Boğaç Kunt .
features
The animals reach a body length of 31 mm (males) to 41 mm (females) and thus belong to the larger species of the genus Chaetopelma . The legs, the pedipalps and the chelicerae are gray beige-brown in color with pale hair. The abdomen is darker brown with long, shaggy, pale hair. In females, the hair on the ventral side is shorter and orange-brown. The carapace is pink-brown, woolly in the males, less woolly in the females, hairy. The sternum and the abdominal sides of the coxa are gray-brown in females. In the males there are 55 cuspids at the mouth opening ( labium ), 230 cuspules at the maxilla , in the females there are 73 and 220 cuspules.
Way of life
At the site of the type specimen ( type locality ) at a height of 475 m, Chaetopelma altugkadirorum was found in sparse pine forests in caves up to 50 cm deep. The caves were often observed on rotting tree stumps along crumbling roots. The female paratype was discovered with young spiders in a hideout under the curb of a footpath, densely lined with spider threads.
Taxonomy
Chaetopelma altugkadirorum is closely related to Chaetopelma olivaceum , both species show similarities in terms of the spermathec and the bulbs . Morphological and ecological differences, however, support the distinction as separate species. The genus Chaetopelma thus comprises five species, of which four species occur in the Mediterranean area with C. altugkadirorum , C. olivaceum , C. karlamani and C. concolor .
Web links
Chaetopelma altugkadirorum in the World Spider Catalog
- Chaetopelma altugkadirorum mating. onYouTube. Video of a mating; Created by the first descriptor Guy Tansley.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Richard C. Gallon, Ray Gabriel, Guy Tansley: A new "Chaetopelma" species from the eastern Mediterranean (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Ischnocolinae) (PDF; 1.8 MB). In: Journal of the British Tarantula Society. 27 (4) 2012, pp. 128-139.