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

Described by Ray Gabriel, Danniella Sherwood, Pedro J. Peñaherrera Romero, Ariel Guerrero-Campoverde, Roberto J. León-E, José Manuel Falcón-Reibán, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Jaime Daniel Fajardo-Torres, Patricio Picón-Rentería

♀ Female described

Live specimen © Peñaherrera-R. et al. (2025, fig. 14A) — the holotype female in life as a juvenile, showing the ontogenetic abdominal pattern

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Peñaherrera-R., P. J., 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. (2025). Novel insights on Psalmopoeinae Samm & Schmidt, 2010 (Araneae: Theraphosidae): new species, taxonomic restorations, and reversal of four erroneous synonymies. Arachnology 20 (3): 491-508.

Distribution

Ecuador

Type Locality: ECUADOR: Chilcaplaya, 490 m, parroquia de Pucará, provincia de Azuay

Etymology

A patronym honouring Carlos Montúfar Barba Freile (b. Quito, 1949), a founding member of the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, physicist, educator and promoter of the natural sciences.

Specimen Records (1)

ZSFQ-i12375 ♀ Holotype Ecuador

Chilcaplaya, 490 m, parroquia de Pucará, Azuay

August 2022 · col. J. M. Falcón-Reibán, J. Fajardo-Torres & P. Picón-Rentería

Holotype female of Tapinauchenius montufari, the first Tapinauchenius from west of the Andes

Genitalia

Spermathecae © Peñaherrera-R. et al. (2025, fig. 12A–C) — holotype female ZSFQ-i12375, the hammer-shaped receptacles the species is diagnosed on

Taxonomic History

Tapinauchenius montufari Peñaherrera-R., Guerrero-Campoverde, León-E., Falcón-Reibán, Fajardo-Torres, Picón-Rentería, Gabriel, Sherwood & Cisneros-Heredia, 2025
The first Tapinauchenius known from west of the Andes. Its describers read the pair of it and T. dayuma as evidence of a trans-Andean speciation pathway for Andean theraphosids.