Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Psalmopoeus

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

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2025-11-03
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066330]
  • Distribution: Colombia
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Instituto de Ciencias Naturales (ICN), Invertebrate Collection, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Natural History Museum Andes (NUCMHN), Bogotá, Colombia; f (Ar-7507-PZ3) (Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c)
  • Paratype: Instituto de Ciencias Naturales (ICN), Invertebrate Collection, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Natural History Museum Andes (NUCMHN), Bogotá, Colombia; 1m 2f (Ar 6950, 7507-PZ 1-2) (Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c)
Taxonomic references
Psalmopoeus ecclesiasticus Cifuentes & Bertani, 2022: 77, f. 2, 217-235 (mf; misidentified per Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c: 501 [not mentioning f. 2, 229-235]; f. 229-234 apparently mislabelled).
Psalmopoeus zombie Sherwood, Peñaherrera-R., Gabriel, Guerrero-Campoverde, León-E., Falcón-Reibán, Fajardo-Torres, Picón-Rentería & Cisneros-Heredia, in Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c: 501, f. 9A-C (Dmf).
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 download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2025-11-03 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon n/a (Old value)
2025-11-03 New taxonomic reference entry Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c n/a
2025-11-03 New species inserted Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025c n/a