Harpathele
Genus of spiders
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Harpathele is a genus of curtain-web spiders that was first described by Gabriel Wermelinger-Moreira, Denis Rafael Pedroso, Pedro de Souza Castanheira, and Renner Luiz Cerqueira Baptista in 2024. It is known only from the Southeast region of Brazil.[2]
| Harpathele | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Dipluridae |
| Genus: | Harpathele Wermelinger-Moreira, Pedroso, Castanheira & Baptista, 2024[1] |
| Type species | |
| H. gymnognatha (Bertkau, 1880) | |
| Species | |
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Description
They are relatively small spiders for their family, with males measuring 14.6-21.4 mm long, and females measuring 16.0-21.7 mm long. They have a brown carapace, dark brown to orange brown legs, and an oval abdomen longer than it is wide that varies from dark brown to dirty yellow.[2]