Trichopelma laurae Mori & Bertani, 2020

Ríos-Tamayo, Duniesky, 2024, Taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Trichopelma Simon, 1888 (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Trichopelmatinae) in Cuba, with the descriptions of seven new species and a new species of Thalerommata Ausserer, 1875, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10 (2), pp. 347-399 : 375

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.61186/jibs.10.2.347
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17026523
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scientific name	Trichopelma laurae Mori & Bertani, 2020
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Trichopelma laurae Mori & Bertani, 2020 View in CoL

Trichopelma laurae Mori & Bertani, 2020:103 View in CoL .

Type Material ( not examined). Holotype ♂, Cuba, Havana Province, El Laguito , [23°05’N, 82°27’W], VII.1966, coll. P. Alayo, ( MCZ 75067 About MCZ ). GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Males of Trichopelma laurae can be distinguished by their bulb with a curved embolus and the STC bare (similar to T. cheguevarai sp. nov.; T. cubanum and T. juventud ). It differs from T. juventud and T. cheguevarai sp. nov. by its bulb morphology and from T. cubanum by their tibial I apophysis with the prolateral branch the same size as the associated spine and the labium with 16 cuspules (v. 37 in T. cubanum ).

Description. See Mori & Bertani, 2020:103.