World Spider Catalog

Genus: Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Psalmopoeus drolshageni Sherwood, Gabriel, Peñaherrera-R., Guerrero-Campoverde, León-E., Falcón-Reibán, Fajardo-Torres, Picón-Rentería & Cisneros-Heredia, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066328

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Described:

Distribution: Costa Rica

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA m (ENT-9071244) - (Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c)
Paratype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA 1m 2f 1j (ENT 9071243-9071244) - (Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c)

Taxonomic References

Psalmopoeus reduncus Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022: 71, f. 183-198 (mf; misidentified per Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c: 496)

Psalmopoeus drolshageni Sherwood, Gabriel, Peñaherrera-R., Guerrero-Campoverde, León-E., Falcón-Reibán, Fajardo-Torres, Picón-Rentería & Cisneros-Heredia in Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c: 496 (Dmf) Original description

References

Cifuentes, Y. & Bertani, R. (2022). Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the tarantula genera Tapinauchenius Ausserer, 1871, Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1985, and Amazonius n. gen. (Theraphosidae, Psalmopoeinae). Zootaxa 5101(1): 1-123. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5101.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Peñaherrera-R., P., León-E., R. J., Guerrero-Campoverde, A., Falcón-Reibán, J. M., Fajardo-Torres, J. D., Picón-Rentería, P., Gabriel, R., Sherwood, D. & Cisneros-Heredia, D. F. (2025c). Novel insights on Psalmopoeinae Samm & Schmidt, 2010 (Araneae: Theraphosidae): new species, taxonomic restorations, and reversal of four erroneous synonymies. Arachnology 20(3): 491-508. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.3.18 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference
2025-11-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022
2025-11-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c
2025-11-02	New species inserted	Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c