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Kochiana brunnipes

Kochiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Kochiana
Fukushima, Nagahama & Bertani, 2008
Species: K. brunnipes
Binomial name
Kochiana brunnipes
(Koch, 1842)

Kochiana is a monotypic theraphosid spider genus, native to Brazil. Its sole species is Kochiana brunnipes. It is placed in the Theraphosinae subfamily.

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.

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.


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