Pamphobeteus
Pamphobeteus is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1901. It includes some of the largest spiders in the world.
This genus was split from Lasiodora, distinguished by the lack of scopulae on the inferior side of the first leg femur and the differences in the organ for stridulation.Species
it contains thirteen species, endemic to northwestern South America and Panama:
- Pamphobeteus antinous Pocock, 1903 – Peru, Bolivia
- Pamphobeteus augusti – Ecuador
- Pamphobeteus crassifemur Bertani, Fukushima & Silva, 2008 – Brazil
- Pamphobeteus ferox – Colombia
- Pamphobeteus fortis – Colombia
- Pamphobeteus grandis Bertani, Fukushima & Silva, 2008 – Brazil
- Pamphobeteus insignis Pocock, 1903 – Colombia
- Pamphobeteus nigricolor – Colombia, Brazil
- Pamphobeteus ornatus Pocock, 1903 – Panama, Colombia
- Pamphobeteus petersi Schmidt, 2002 – Ecuador, Peru
- Pamphobeteus ultramarinus Schmidt, 1995 – Ecuador
- Pamphobeteus verdolaga Cifuentes, Perafán & Estrada-Gomez, 2016 – Colombia
- Pamphobeteus vespertinus – Ecuador
Formerly included:
- P. benedeni
- P. cephalopheus Piza, 1944
- P. communis Piza, 1939
- P. litoralis Piza, 1976
- P. masculus Piza, 1939
- P. mus Piza, 1944
- P. piracicabensis Piza, 1933
- P. striatus Schmidt & Antonelli, 1996
- P. urbanicolus Soares, 1941
- P. ypiranguensis Soares, 1941
