Kingdom Animalia Infraorder Mygalomorphae Species K. brunnipes Phylum Arthropoda Rank Genus | Subphylum Chelicerata Family Theraphosidae Scientific name Kochiana Higher classification Tarantula Order Spider | |
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Similar Kochiana brunnipes, Tarantula, Cyriocosmus, Haplocosmia, Hapalopus | ||
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Kochiana is a monotypic theraphosid spider genus, native to Brazil. Its sole species is Kochiana brunnipes. It is placed in the Theraphosinae subfamily.
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Kochiana brunnipes
Taxonomy
Carl Ludwig Koch described the species Mygale brunnipes in 1842. Nearly 200 years later, in 2008, Caroline Fukushima, Roberto Nagahama and Rogèrio Bertani transferred it to the genus Kochiana as Kochiana brunnipes, which is still accepted as of March 2016.
Characteristics
K. brunnipes males differ from others in the subfamily by having a long and downwards pointing embolus with prolateral accessory keels, and by the ability of the first metatarsus to fold between the two branches of the tibial spur.
Both sexes have black cephalothoraxes and abdomens, with the urticating hair patch golden. The coxae, trochanters and femurs are also black, but the patellae, tibiae, metatarsi, and tarsi are reddish light brown.