Description of a new Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895 species (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Psalmopoeinae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador Author Dupérré, Nadine Museum of Nature Hamburg, Zoology, Leibniz-Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Center for Taxonomy and Morphology, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. & Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, U. S. A. Author Tapia, Elicio Museum of Nature Hamburg, Zoology, Leibniz-Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Center for Taxonomy and Morphology, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. text Zootaxa 2024 2024-04-16 5437 4 495 509 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5437.4.3 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5437.4.3 1175-5326 10985391 6BE8A2DA-FB69-436D-89C3-41811238B405 Genus Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895 Type species. Psalmopoeus cambridgei Pocock, 1895 . Diagnosis. For complete diagnosis see Cifuentes & Bertani (2022) . The genus Psalmopoeus differs from its congeners by the presence of densely grouped and smooth setae on the retrolateral side of the trochanter palp ( Fig. 4D , arrow); maxillary lyra with thick bristles disposed in one row ( Figs 2C , 4C , 6C ). Distribution. Mexico , Belize , Guatemala , Honduras , Nicaragua , Costa Rica , Panamá , Colombia , Venezuela , Trinidad and Tobago , Guyana , Ecuador and Brazil . Composition. Psalmopoeus cambridgei Pocock, 1895 , P. chronoarachne Peñaherrera-R. & León-E., 2023, P. ecclesiasticus Pocock, 1903 , P. emeraldus Pocock, 1903 , P. irminia Saager, 1994 , P. langenbucheri Schmidt, Bullmer & Thierer-Lutz, 2006 , P. maya Witt, 1996 , P. plantaris Pocock, 1903 , P. pristirana n. sp. , P. pulcher Petrunkevitch, 1925 , P. reduncus (Karsch, 1880) , P. satanas Peñaherrera-R. & León-E., 2023, and P. victori Mendoza, 2014 .