Taxon details
Ewok pruriens (Schmidt, 1998)
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2025-11-15
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002490]
- Distribution: Peru, not Chile
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- Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; f (57918, exuvia) (Sherwood et al., 2021c)
Thrixopelma pruriens Schmidt, 1998h: 16, f. 71 (f).
Thrixopelma pruriens Schmidt, 1998i: 6, f. 2 (Df).
Thrixopelma pruriens Schmidt & Antonelli, 1999: 22, f. 8-17 (Dm).
Thrixopelma pruriens Vol, 1999a: 13, f. ZZ (f).
Thrixopelma pruriens Peters, 2000b: 126, f. 367-369 (mf).
Thrixopelma pruriens Peters, 2003: 303, f. 1197-1198, 1202 (mf).
Thrixopelma pruriens Schmidt, 2003l: 191, f. 522-524 (mf).
Thrixopelma pruriens Sherwood et al., 2021c: 912, f. 73, 75, 77-81, 83, 85-88 (f).
Thrixopelma pruriens Aguilera, Montenegro & Casanueva, 2022: 68, f. 2A-E (mf).
Thrixopelma pruriens Kaderka & Quispe-Colca, 2025: 8, f. 6A-B, 7A-B, 8C-D (mf).
Ewok pruriens Sherwood et al., 2025f: 10 (T from Thrixopelma).
Aguilera, M. A., Montenegro Vargas, R. & Casanueva, M. E. (2022). Revised taxonomic placement and distribution update of Grammostola Simon, 1892, Phrixotrichus Simon, 1889 and Thrixopelma Schmidt, 1994 species, a chaotic history of Chilean tarantulas (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 40: 63-71. 
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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
Peters, H.-J. (2000b). Tarantulas of the world: Kleiner Atlas der Vogelspinnen - Band 2. Published by the author, 162 pp. -- Show included taxa
Peters, H.-J. (2003). Tarantulas of the world: Amerika's Vogelspinnen. Published by the author, Wegberg, Germany, 328 pp. [Longhorn & Gabriel, 2019: 109: "We consider much of the information in Peters (2003) as erroneous"] -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (1997g). Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Gattungen der Unterfamilie Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnologisches Magazin 3(Sonderausgabe): 1-27. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (1998i). Die chilenischen Vogelspinnen der Gattungen Grammostola Simon, 1892, Paraphysa Simon, 1892, Euathlus Ausserer, 1875 und Thrixopelma Schmidt, 1994 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae) mit Beschreibung einer neuen Thrixoplema-Spezies. Arthropoda 6(1): 3-10. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (1998h). Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Gattungen der Unterfamilie Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). 2. Aktualisierte Auflage. Arachnologisches Magazin Sonderausgabe 4: 1-28. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. & Antonelli, D. (1999). Das Männchen von Thrixopelma pruriens Schmidt 1998 (Arachnida: Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 109(1): 20-26. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (2003l). Die Vogelspinnen: Eine weltweite Übersicht. Neue Brehm-Bücherei, Hohenwarsleben, 383 pp. -- Show included taxa
Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Kaderka, R., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2021c). Stabilizing a chaotic taxonomy: redescription and redefinition of the genera Lasiodorides Schmidt & Bischoff, 1997 and Thrixopelma Schmidt, 1994 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(8): 893-917. doi:10.13156/arac.2021.18.8.893 -- 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
Vol, F. (1999a). A propos d'une spermatheque inhabituelle. Arachnides 42: 1-13. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-15 | New taxonomic reference entry | Sherwood et al., 2025f | n/a |
| 2025-11-15 | Species transferred to new genus | Sherwood et al., 2025f | Species transferred from Thrixopelma to Ewok |
| 2025-07-14 | New taxonomic reference entry | Kaderka & Quispe-Colca, 2025 | n/a |
| 2022-07-01 | New taxonomic reference entry | Aguilera, Montenegro & Casanueva, 2022 | n/a |
| 2021-07-05 | New taxonomic reference entry | Sherwood et al., 2021c | n/a |
| 2021-07-05 | Species distribution update | Sherwood et al., 2021c | n/a (Old value) |