family Theraphosidae

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family Theraphosidae - large tropical spiders; tarantulas

Theraphosidae

arthropod family - any of the arthropods

Araneae, Araneida, order Araneae, order Araneida - spiders

tarantula - large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites

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Bites by spiders of the family Theraphosidae in humans and canines.

Black widow spiders, Latrodectus spp. (Araneae: Theridiidae), and other spiders feeding on mammals

Thus, herein, we analyze cases of unjustified emendations in scientific names dedicated to people, published because of sex or the number of dedicatees, in the family Theraphosidae (Arachnida: Mygalomorphae), currently containing about 978 (2nd.

Casos de enmiendas injustificadas de nombres cientificos dedicados a las personas en las tarantulas (Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae)

The family Theraphosidae represents the largest and the most studied group of mygalomorph spiders.

Bistriopelma, un genero nuevo con dos nuevas especies de Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae)

The arachnologists came to the conclusion this was a tarantula in the mygalomorph family Theraphosidae.

First distribution record of a tarantula spider (Araneae, Theraphosidae) found in the United Arab Emirates

tarantula Any of various large, hairy, chiefly tropical spiders of the family Theraphosidae and capable of inflicting a painful but not seriously venomous bite.

The case of the hairy eyeball

The systematics and taxonomy of the family Theraphosidae have been heavily influenced by the presence and variations of stridulatory setae (Pocock 1895, 1897, 1899; Simon 1903; Perez-Miles et al.

Morphology of setae on the coxae and trochanters of theraphosine spiders (Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae)

Members of the family Theraphosidae are usually large and long-lived and in the last decades they have become popular as pets in many countries.

Spiderling emergence in the tarantula Grammostola mollicoma (Ausserer 1875): an experimental approach (Araneae, Theraphosidae)