Stromatopelma
Stromatopelma is a genus of African tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1881. They are renowned for their potent venom that uses stromatoxin peptides to induce medically significant effects.Species
it contains five species and one subspecies, found in Africa:
In synonymy:
- S. brachypoda = Stromatopelma calceatum
- S. straeleni = Stromatopelma batesi
