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Genus: Cymbiapophysa Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Cymbiapophysa marimbai (Perafán & Valencia-Cuéllar, 2018)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050800

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Described:

Distribution: Colombia

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Instituto de Ciencias Naturales (ICN), Invertebrate Collection, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Natural History Museum Andes (NUCMHN), Bogotá, Colombia m (Ar 8042) - (Perafán & Valencia-Cuéllar, 2018)
Allotype: Instituto de Ciencias Naturales (ICN), Invertebrate Collection, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Natural History Museum Andes (NUCMHN), Bogotá, Colombia f (Ar 8043) - (Perafán & Valencia-Cuéllar, 2018)
Paratype: Instituto de Ciencias Naturales (ICN), Invertebrate Collection, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Natural History Museum Andes (NUCMHN), Bogotá, Colombia mf (Ar 8044) - (Perafán & Valencia-Cuéllar, 2018)

Taxonomic References

Proshapalopus marimbai Perafán & Valencia-Cuéllar, 2018: 202, f. 1, 2A-H, 3A-D (Dmf) Original description

Cymbiapophysa marimbai Sherwood et al., 2021b: 841 (T from Proshapalopus)

Cymbiapophysa marimbai Peñaherrera-R., 2025b: 133, f. 1 (m)

References

Peñaherrera-R., P. (2025b). Note on the morphology of Cymbiapophysa marimbai (Perafán & Valencia-Cuéllar, 2018) (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 46: 133-134. [[publ. end of July]] -- Show included taxa

Perafán, C. & Valencia-Cuéllar, D. (2018). Proshapalopus marimbai, a new tarantula species (Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) and first genus record from Colombia. Tropical Zoology 31(4): 200-213. doi: 10.1080/03946975.2018.1493181 -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2021b). A new species of Cymbiapophysa Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 from Colombia and a transfer from Proshapalopus Mello-Leitão, 1923 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(8): 838-843. doi: 10.13156/arac.2021.18.8.838 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2025-07-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Peñaherrera-R., 2025b
2021-07-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood et al., 2021b
2021-07-05	Species transferred to new genus	Sherwood et al., 2021b	Species transferred from Proshapalopus to Cymbiapophysa
2018-12-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Perafán & Valencia-Cuéllar, 2018
2018-12-30	New species inserted	Perafán & Valencia-Cuéllar, 2018