Antilles

This genus comprises arboreal species that can be found throughout Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil. All of the Avicularia species have pink foot pads. Many species in this genus have been transferred to other genera. Currently, there are 12 accepted Avicularia species. Historically, over 50 species were classified as Avicularia. Fukushima 2017 is a large-scale taxonomy su

Citharacanthus  is a genus of New World tarantulas in the family Theraphosidae, found in Central America and the Caribbean, especially Cuba, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Hispaniola. The genus was established in the early 1900s by British arachnologist R. I. Pocock, who reassigned several large ground-dwelling species from older catch-all genera into Citharacanthus as tarantula taxonomy became more refined. One of these, Citharacanthus longipes , originally described by F. O.

Caribena  is a modern Caribbean tarantula genus formally established in 2017, when taxonomists revised the classic “pinktoe” group and split off a distinct island lineage from the old genus Avicularia . Although the name Caribena  is new, its species – most notably the beloved Antilles pinktoe ( Caribena versicolor ) and Puerto Rican pinktoe ( Caribena laeta ) – have been known to science since the 19th century under older names. These arboreal spiders are now recognized as a

Holothele is a small New World tarantula genus first established by Ferdinand Karsch in 1879 for the species Holothele recta  from northern South America. At the time it was actually placed among the “curtain-web spiders” (family Dipluridae), and only later, in 1980, was it formally moved into the tarantula family Theraphosidae. Through the 20th century, Holothele became a “catch-all” for many small, ground-dwelling tarantulas from Central and South America and the Caribbean.

Phormictopus is a New World tarantula genus in the family Theraphosidae, native mainly to the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Hispaniola and nearby Caribbean islands). A few species historically reported from South America (Brazil and Argentina) are now suspected to be misassigned and may eventually be moved to other genera. The genus was formally established in 1901 by British arachnologist Reginald Innes Pocock. He took a large Caribbean tarantula originally described as Mygale can