''Diplura'' is a
genus
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of
South America
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n
curtain web spiders that was first described by
C. L. Koch in 1850.
It is found in
South America
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and
Cuba
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belonging to the subfamily
Diplurinae.
They possess a lyra on their prolateral
maxilla
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e. ''Diplura'' species can be distinguished from ''
Trechona'' sp. by the number of
seta
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Animal setae
Protostomes
Annelid setae are stiff bristles present on the body. ...
e on this lyra. 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.
Species
it contains eighteen species:
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Diplura annectens''
( Bertkau, 1880) – Brazil
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Diplura argentina''
(Canals, 1931) – Argentina
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Diplura catharinensis''
( Mello-Leitão, 1927) – Brazil
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Diplura erlandi''
( Tullgren, 1905) – Bolivia
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Diplura garbei''
(Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
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Diplura garleppi''
(Simon
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, 1892) – Bolivia
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Diplura lineata''
(Lucas, 1857) – Brazil
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Diplura macrura''
(C. L. Koch, 1841) (
type) – Brazil
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Diplura mapinguari''
Pedroso, Giupponi & Baptista, 2018 – Brazil
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Diplura nigra''
( F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Brazil
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Diplura paraguayensis''
(Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1940) – Paraguay, Argentina
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Diplura parallela''
(Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
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Diplura petrunkevitchi''
( Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
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Diplura riveti''
(Simon, 1903) – Ecuador
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Diplura rodrigoi''
Pedroso, Giupponi & Baptista, 2018 – Brazil
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Diplura sanguinea''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Brazil
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Diplura studiosa''
(Mello-Leitão, 1920) – Brazil
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Diplura taunayi''
(Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
References
External links
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Further reading
*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 Americanas." 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.
Dipluridae
Mygalomorphae genera
Spiders of South America
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