Cyriocosmus aueri Kaderka, 2016

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Female

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Distribution

Peru

Type Locality: Peru, Iquitos, at margin of the Amazon River, village of Nuevo Umaral

Adult Male Activity

Collection months of 3 adult male specimen records, against the rainfall where they live

Adult males collected

Mean monthly rainfall and temperature 2001–2020 near the type locality. MERRA-2 via NASA POWER, for a grid cell averaging 96 m. Wet and dry seasons, from the rainfall at the locality itself.

Etymology

The specific name is a patronym in honour of Hans-Werner Auer, who found all new species here described from Amazon rainforest in the Loreto region, Peru.

Specimen Records (4)

MUSM-ENT 0504033 ♂ Type Peru

Peru, Loreto, Rio Tigre, Cocha Shinguito

May 1990 · col. Diana Silva Dávila

SMFD ♂ Type Peru

Peru, Loreto, Rio Tigre, Comunidad Monteverde,

April 1993 · col. Dr William Lamar

NMPC P6A-5729 ♂ Type Peru

Peru, Iquitos, at margin of the Amazon River, village of Nuevo Umaral

May 2009 · col. Hans-Werner Auer

NMPC P6A-5730 ♀ Type Peru

Peru, Iquitos, at margin of the Amazon River, village of Nuevo Umaral

May 2009 · col. Hans-Werner Auer

both found in a c.30 cm long burrow

Bibliography (1)

Kaderka, R. (2015). The Neotropical genus Cyriocosmus Simon, 1903 and new species from Peru, Brazil and Venezuela (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Journal of Natural History, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1076082.