Euathlus walteri Taucare-Ríos, Ocares Plaza & Pérez-Miles, 2025

Described by Fernando Pérez-Miles, Andrés Taucare-Ríos, Sergio Ocares Plaza

♀ Female described ♂ Male described
Female Female © Andrés Taucare-Ríos, in Taucare-Ríos, Ocares Plaza & Pérez-Miles (2025), female paratype in life

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Bibliography

Taucare-Ríos, A., Ocares Plaza, S. & Pérez-Miles, F. (2025). A new species of tarantula of the genus Euathlus (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Chile: distribution and possible threats to its conservation. Gayana 88 (2): 297-309.

Distribution

Chile

Type Locality: Road to Quebrada Blanca, Pica, Tamarugal province, Tarapacá region, Chile, 4269 m a.s.l.

Adult Male Activity

Collection months of 1 adult male specimen record

Etymology

This species is named in honor of Walter Sielfeld Kowald, professor and mentor of the first author, who has contributed to the training of biologists in the Tarapacá region for decades.

Specimen Records (4)

FCE-My 1667 ♂ Holotype Chile

Road to Quebrada Blanca, Pica, 4269 m a.s.l.; under rock, Tamarugal, Tarapacá

September 2023 · col. Sergio Ocares Plaza

Holotype male of Euathlus walteri; found under a stone without any apparent shelter.

MNHN 8415 ♀ Paratype Chile

Chusmiza, Huara, 3850 m a.s.l.; under rock, Tamarugal, Tarapacá

September 2013 · col. Marcos Ferrú

Paratype female of Euathlus walteri; the northernmost record of the species.

FCE-My 1668 ♀ Paratype Chile

Road to Collahuasi, Ujina site, Pica, 4036 m a.s.l., Tamarugal, Tarapacá

October 2023 · col. Sergio Ocares Plaza

Paratype female of Euathlus walteri; found in spring inside a tubular burrow under a stone. Spermathecae and habitus figured.

MNHN 8414 ♀ Paratype Chile

Road to Quebrada Blanca, Pica, 4169 m a.s.l.; under rock, Tamarugal, Tarapacá

September 2023 · col. Sergio Ocares Plaza

Paratype female of Euathlus walteri.