Stromatopelma is a genus of African tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1881.[2] They are renowned for their potent venom that uses stromatoxin peptides to induce medically significant effects.[3]
Stromatopelma | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
Family: | Theraphosidae |
Genus: | Stromatopelma Karsch, 1881[1] |
Type species | |
S. calceatum (Fabricius, 1793) | |
Species | |
5, see text | |
Synonyms | |
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As of May 2020[update] it contains five species and one subspecies, found in Africa:[1]
Insynonymy:
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