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Citation: Kambas, D. 2026. Tarantupedia: an online taxonomic database for the world's largest spiders. www.tarantupedia.com. Accessed on 2026-2-24.

Latest Described Species

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Urupelma lamarense

Kaderka, 2026

Peru ♀ ♂

Homoeomma vicenterojasi

Montenegro Vargas, Rojas-Abarca & Aguilera, 2026

Chile ♀ ♂

Khantao ya

Yu, von Wirth, West, Zhang & Zhang, 2026

China ♀ ♂

Khantao talpoides

Yu, von Wirth, West, Zhang & Zhang, 2026

China ♀ ♂

Khantao xuanae

Yu, von Wirth, West, Zhang & Zhang, 2026

China ♀

Kiskalla ignacioi

Quispe-Colca, Ferretti, Chaparro, Ochoa & West, 2026

Peru ♀ ♂

Latest Bibliography

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Kaderka, R. (2026). A new species of Urupelma Kaderka et al. 2023 from Peru (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Theraphosinae), and a new proposal of homologous keels. Revista peruana de biología 33(3): e32750, 001-018.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Brescovit, A. D., Lucas, S. M. & Buelvas, D. A. (2026). On Crypsidromus carinatus Valerio, 1980 and its palpal bulb morphology (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 48: 67-71.

Montenegro V., R., Rojas-Abarca, E. & Aguilera, M. A. (2026). Una especie nueva de Homoeomma Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) de la Región de Valparaíso, Chile. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 48: 61-66.

Yu, K., von Wirth, V., West, R. C., Zhang, S. & Zhang, F. (2026). Khantao gen. nov., a new genus of Selenocosmiinae Simon, 1889 from western Yunnan of China (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae). Zootaxa 5853(2): 151-188.

Aguirre-Cano, D., Moreno-García, R., Parra-Giraldo, A., Carmona-Aguirre, B., Palacios-Castro, S. & Álvarez-Arellano, D. (2026). New data on the distribution of Aguapanela arvi Perafán, Cifuentes & Estrada, 2015 in Colombia through collections and citizen science, with notes on the natural history (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Fragmenta entomologica 58(1): 165-172.

Quispe-Colca, O. M., Ferretti, N., Chaparro, J. C., Ochoa, J. A. & West, R. C. (2026). On a new genus of dwarf tarantulas (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae) endemic from Peru: evidence from morphology and molecular phylogeny, with description of three new species. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 84: 371-392.