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
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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
.