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Genus: Ewok Peñaherrera-R., Sherwood, Gabriel, León-E., Rollard, Leguin, Brescovit & Lucas, 2025 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Ewok christineae (Sherwood & Gabriel, 2024)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060445

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Described:

Distribution: Peru

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (AR 4846) - (Sherwood & Gabriel, 2024b)
Holotype: Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (MUSM), Lima, Peru (Syn: Ewok zaratensis) m (ENT 0500671) - (Kaderka & Quispe-Colca, 2025)
Paratype: Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (MUSM), Lima, Peru (Syn: Ewok zaratensis) 1m 1f (ENT 0515798, 0518091) - (Kaderka & Quispe-Colca, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Thrixopelma christineae Sherwood & Gabriel, 2024b: 2, f. 1A-J, 2, 5G (Dm) Original description

Thrixopelma zaratensis Kaderka & Quispe-Colca, 2025: 20, f. 27A-C, 28A-C, 29A-D, 30-31, 32A-B, 35, 36A-B, 37A-C, 38A-C (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065536]

Ewok christineae Sherwood et al., 2025f: 9, f. 6A-E (m, T from Thrixopelma, S of Thrixopelma zaratensis)

References

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. (2024b). Two new species of Thrixopelma Schmidt, 1994 from Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae). ZooNova 31: 1-8. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10830561 -- 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

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2025-11-15	Species synonymy	Sherwood et al., 2025f	Ewok zaratensis synonymized with Ewok christineae
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
2024-04-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood & Gabriel, 2024b
2024-04-02	New species inserted	Sherwood & Gabriel, 2024b