Diplura (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Diplura"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Mygalomorphae
familia = Dipluridae
genus = "Diplura"
genus_authority = C. L. Koch, 1850
diversity_link = List of Dipluridae species#Diplura
diversity = 20 species
type_species = "Mygale macrura"
type_species_authority = C. L. Koch, 1841
range_

range_map_width = 250px
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Diplura annectens"
"Diplura argentina"
"Diplura cathariensis"
"Diplura erlandi"
"Diplura fasciata"
"Diplura garbei"
"Diplura garleppi"
"Diplura lineata"
"Diplura macrura"
"Diplura maculata"
"Diplura nigra"
"Diplura nigridorsi"
"Diplura paraguayensis"
"Diplura parallela"
"Diplura petrunkevitchi"
"Diplura riveti"
"Diplura sanguinea"
"Diplura studiosa"
"Diplura taunayi"
"Diplura uniformis"
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"Diplura" is a genus of funnel-web tarantulas found in South America and Cuba belonging to the subfamily Diplurinae. They possess a lyra on their prolateral maxillae. "Diplura" sp. can be distinguished from "Trechona" sp. by the number of setae this lyra consists of. They differ from "Harmonicon" sp. by the leg formula (1423 in Harmonicon, rather than 4123 in other genera of the subfamily) and the shape of the lyra bristles.

References

* (2008): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/DIPLURIDAE.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.5. "American Museum of Natural History".
* [http://www.dipluridae.de Taxonomy, housing and captive breeding of Dipluridae sp.] including key to all genera

*Ausserer, A. (1871a). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor)." Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 21: 117-224.
*Baptista, R. L. C. and D. R., Pedroso (2005). Diplura lineata (Lucas, 1857): redescrição, sinonímias e notas sobre distribuição (Araneae: Dipluridae): 239.
*Bücherl, W., A Timotheo da Costa & S. Lucas (1971). "Revisão de alguns tipos de aranhas caranguejeiras (Orthognatha) estabelecidos por Candido de Mello-Leitão e depositados no Museu Nacional do Rio." Mems Inst. Butantan 35: 117-138.
*Cambridge, F. O. P.-. (1896). "On the Theraphosidae of the lower Amazons: being an account of the new genera and species of this group of spiders discovered during the expedition of the steamship "Faraday" up the river Amazons." Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1896: 716-766.
*Mello-Leitão, C. F. d. (1924b). "Quelques arachnides nouveaux du Bresil." Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 93: 179-187.
*Mello-Leitão, C. F. d. (1941a). "Notas sobre a sistematica das aranhas com descrição de algumas novas especies Sul Ameicanas." Anais Acad. bras. Cienc. 13: 103-127.
*Mello-Leitão, C. F. d. (1941b). "Catalogo das aranhas da Colombia." Anais Acad. bras. Cienc. 13: 233-300.
*Vollrath, F. (1978). "A close relationship between two spiders (Arachnidae, Araneidae): Curimagua bayano synecious on a Diplura species." Psyche 85: 347-353.