Ewok aymara (Chamberlin, 1916)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001793

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Described:

Distribution: Peru

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  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f (IZ–16011) - (Sherwood et al., 2021c)
Taxonomic References
Eurypelma aymara Chamberlin, 1916: 201 (Df) Original description
Thrixopelma aymara Fukushima & Bertani, 2017: 125, f. 223-224 (f, T from Avicularia)
Thrixopelma aymara Sherwood et al., 2021c: 903, f. 35-36 (f)
Thrixopelma aymara Kaderka & Quispe-Colca, 2025: 10, f. 9-13, 14A-C, 15A-C, 16A-C, 17A-D, 18A-C, 19-20, 21A-F, 22A-C, 23A-F, 25A-C, 26 (Dmf)
Ewok aymara Sherwood et al., 2025f: 9 (T from Thrixopelma)
References

Chamberlin, R. V. (1916). Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911. The Arachnida. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60: 177-299, pl. 1-25. -- Show included taxa

Fukushima, C. S. & Bertani, R. (2017). Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of Avicularia Lamarck, 1818 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae) with description of three new aviculariine genera. ZooKeys 659: 1-185, Suppl. 1-5. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.659.10717 -- Show included taxa

Kaderka, R. & Quispe-Colca, O. M. (2025). Description of a male of the Peruvian tarantula Thrixopelma aymara (Chamberlin, 1916), and a new species of Thrixopelma Schmidt, 1994 from Peru (Araneae; Theraphosidae; Theraphosinae), with comments on the conservation of tarantulas in Peru. Revista Peruana de Biología 32(2, e30562): 1-35. doi: 10.15381/rpb.v32i2.30562 -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Kaderka, R., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2021c). Stabilizing a chaotic taxonomy: redescription and redefinition of the genera Lasiodorides Schmidt & Bischoff, 1997 and Thrixopelma Schmidt, 1994 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(8): 893-917. doi: 10.13156/arac.2021.18.8.893 -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P., León-E., R. J., Rollard, C., Leguin, E.-A., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2025f). On the identity of some taxa in the tarantula tribe Hapalopini, with two synonymies, and description of four new genera and three new species (Araneae: Theraphosidae). ZooNova 46: 1-23. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17612014 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-11-15 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood et al., 2025f
2025-11-15 Species transferred to new genus Sherwood et al., 2025f Species transferred from Thrixopelma to Ewok
2025-07-14 New taxonomic reference entry Kaderka & Quispe-Colca, 2025
2025-07-14 First description of male Kaderka & Quispe-Colca, 2025 Old value
2021-07-05 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood et al., 2021c
2017-03-07 New taxonomic reference entry Fukushima & Bertani, 2017
2017-03-07 Species transferred to new genus Fukushima & Bertani, 2017 Species transferred from Avicularia to Thrixopelma

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