Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Urupelma

Urupelma peruvianum (Chamberlin, 1916)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-12-06
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002091]
  • Distribution: Peru
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; m (IZ-15413) (Gabriel, Sherwood & Pérez-Miles, 2023)
  • Paratype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; 1m 2f 1jf (140-141, 15886 = 324, 325) (Chamberlin, 1916)
Taxonomic references
Hemirrhagus peruvianus Chamberlin, 1916: 196, pl. 6, f. 4-10, pl. 7, f. 1-2 (Dmf).
Homoeomma peruvianum Pérez-Miles & Locht, 2003: 366 (T from Hemirrhagus).
Isiboroa peruviana Gabriel, Sherwood & Pérez-Miles, 2023: 947, f. 13-15 (m, T from Homoeomma).
Urupelma peruvianum Kaderka et al., 2023: 1729, f. 2A-F, 3A-C, 4A-H, 5A-F, 6A-B, 7A-E, 8A-E, 9A-B, 13A-D (m, T from Homoeomma).
References

Chamberlin, R. V. (1916). Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911. The Arachnida. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60: 177-299, pl. 1-25. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gabriel, R., Sherwood, D. & Pérez-Miles, F. (2023). Four new species and two new genera of theraphosid spider from Bolivia (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(6): 944-951. doi:10.13156/arac.2023.19.6.944 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kaderka, R., Lüddecke, T., Řezáč, M., Řezáčová, V. & Hüsser, M. (2023). Revision of the Peruvian tarantula Homoeomma peruvianum (Chamberlin, 1916): description of a new genus with eleven new species and insights to the evolution of montane tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Journal of Natural History 57(41-44): 1710-1824. doi:10.1080/00222933.2023.2265621 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pérez-Miles, F. & Locht, A. (2003). Revision and cladistic analysis of the genus Hemirrhagus Simon, 1903 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Theraphosinae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 365-375. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-12-06 New taxonomic reference entry Kaderka et al., 2023 n/a
2023-12-06 Species transferred to new genus Kaderka et al., 2023 Species transferred from Isiboroa to Urupelma
2023-11-03 New taxonomic reference entry Gabriel, Sherwood & Pérez-Miles, 2023 n/a
2023-11-03 Species transferred to new genus Gabriel, Sherwood & Pérez-Miles, 2023 Species transferred from Homoeomma to Isiboroa