5, see text Stromatopelma is a genus of African tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1881.

[2] They are renowned for their potent venom that uses stromatoxin peptides to induce medically significant effects.

[3] As of May 2020[update] it contains five species and one subspecies, found in Africa:[1] In synonymy:

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