Pedro J. Peñaherrera Romero

Pedro J. Peñaherrera Romero

Publishing 2023–2026

0000-0001-9285-3403
18 papers 38 species 17 genera 8 countries

Publication activity

2023 2026

New taxa described

2023 2025

Papers (18)

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2026). Redescription of Nhandu chromatus Schmidt, 2004 stat. rest. and revalidation of Nhandu sylviae Sherwood, Gabriel & Brescovit, 2023 stat. rest. (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 20 (4): 519-526.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P. J. & Alayón García, G. (2025). A new species of Acanthoscurria Ausserer, 1871: proposal of the theraphosoides species-group and first published record of the genus from Colombia (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Zootaxa 5563 (1): 237-254.

Peñaherrera-R., P. J. & Ghia, T. (2025). A new species of Cymbiapophysa Gabriel et Sherwood, 2020 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from North-Western Ecuador. Arthropoda Selecta 34(2): 266-272.

Peñaherrera-R., P. J. (2025). Note on the morphology of Cymbiapophysa marimbai (Perafán & Valencia-Cuéllar, 2018) (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Revista Iberica de Aracnologia 46: 133-134.

Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Guerrero-Campoverde, A., León-E, R. J., Gabriel, R., Sherwood, D. & Cisneros-Heredia, D. F. (2025). Revisiting the tarantula genus Neischnocolus Petrunkevitch, 1925 (Araneae, Theraphosidae): new insights on male palpal bulb morphology and description of three new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 1022: 19-50.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Rollard, C., Leguin, E. & Privet, K. (2025). Hidden treasures of the Caribbean: two new genera and one new species of Lesser Antillean ischnocoline spiders (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Natura Somogyiensis 46: 99-116.

Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Mora-Bolaños, J., Guerrero-Campoverde, A., León-E, R. J., Tamayo, D. R., Gabriel, R., Sherwood, D. & Cisneros-Heredia, D. F. (2025). A new species of Reversopelma Schmidt, 2001 from Ecuador, and two new tarantula genera from Argentina, Bolivia, and Colombia (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 20 (3): 462-472.

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.

Peñaherrera-R., P. J. & Guayasamin, J. M. (2025). Between cloud forests and museums: testing tarantula (Araneae: Theraphosidae) generic boundaries reveals a new montane genus from Ecuador and Colombia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 205(3): zlaf152.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P. J., León-E, R. J., Rollard, C., Leguin, E., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2025). 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.

Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Ghia, T., Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. (2024). New insights on male palpal bulb morphology in Cymbiapophysa Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020, with four new species from Ecuador (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(7): 1003-1017.

Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Pinos-Sánchez, A., Guerrero-Campoverde, A., León-E, R. J. & Cisneros-Heredia, D. F. (2024). Secrets of a didactic collection: a new tarantula genus from the Montane Forest of north-western Ecuador (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19 (9): 1185-1191.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Osorio, L. M., Benavides, L., Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Hörweg, C., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2024). Spot the difference: on the genus Hapalopus Ausserer, 1875 in Colombia and a new related genus from Brazil and Bolivia (Araneae: Theraphosidae). ZooNova 32: 1-44.

Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Guerrero-Campoverde, A., León-E, R. J., Pinos-Sánchez, A. & Falcón-Reibán, J. M. (2023). Two new Species of Neischnocolus Petrunkevitch, 1925 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Eastern and Western Ecuador. Zootaxa 5351(4): 483-493.

Peñaherrera-R., P. J. (2023). Increasing knowledge of Cymbiapophysa Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 (Araneae, Theraphosidae): general distribution, key to species, and three new species from Ecuador. ZooKeys 1178: 17-38.

Peñaherrera-R., P. J. & León-E, R. J. (2023). On Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) species and tarantula conservation in Ecuador. ZooKeys 1186: 185-205.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P. J., León-E, R. J., Cisneros-Heredia, D. F., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2023). Pamphobeteus Pocock, 1901: redescriptions, new species and records, description of a missing sex, with taxonomic notes and changes in Megaphobema Pocock, 1901 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(6): 894-930.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2023). On the Tarantula Genus Xenesthis Simon, 1891, with Description of a New Species from Venezuela (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Taxonomy 3: 509-527.