Guyruita tepequem Santos, Almeida, Morais & Bertani, 2025

Described by Rogério Bertani, Marlus Queiroz Almeida, José Wellington de Morais, Naila Amanda S. Santos

♂ Male described

Carapace © Santos, Almeida, Morais & Bertani (2025), fig. 1A, holotype male, carapace in dorsal view

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Santos, N. A. S., Almeida, M. Q., Morais, J. W. de & Bertani, R. (2025). New species of Jambu Miglio, Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2024 and Guyruita Guadanucci, Lucas, Indicatti & Yamamoto, 2007 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Brazil, with notes on Hapalopus Ausserer, 1875. Zootaxa 5660(2): 243-254.

Distribution

Brazil

Type Locality: BRAZIL, State of Roraima, Amajari, Serra do Tepequem, SESC

Adult Male Activity

Collection months of 1 adult male specimen record, against the rainfall where they live

Adult males collected

Mean monthly rainfall and temperature 2001–2020 near where these males were collected, Brazil. MERRA-2 via NASA POWER, for a grid cell averaging 433 m. Wet and dry seasons, from the rainfall at the locality itself.

Etymology

The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality, Serra do Tepequem, in the State of Roraima, Brazil.

Specimen Records (1)

INPA-ARA 9117 ♂ Holotype Brazil

Serra do Tepequem, Amajari, SESC, Roraima

December 2015 · col. Boldrini & Rafael

Holotype male of Guyruita tepequem, collected 14-29 December 2015, hand collected at night on humid tropical forest soil. The published coordinates are malformed - "3 4459'N, 61 4400'W", with the minute and second marks run together - and are read here as 3 44'59"N, 61 44'00"W, which falls on Serra do Tepequem.

Genitalia

Male palp © Santos, Almeida, Morais & Bertani (2025), figs 2G-I, left palpal bulb of the holotype male in prolateral, ventral and retrolateral view