Ewok kimraykawsaki Signorotto, Ferretti, Chaparro, Ochoa & West, 2025

Described by Rick C. West, Nelson Ferretti, José A. Ochoa, Juan C. Chaparro, Fiorella Signorotto

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Female © Signorotto, Ferretti, Chaparro, Ochoa & West (2025), female habitus

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Distribution

Peru

Type Locality: Cconoc, Abancay, Apurímac, Peru, 1840 m

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, Peru. MERRA-2 via NASA POWER, for a grid cell averaging 2454 m. Wet and dry seasons, from the rainfall at the locality itself.

Etymology

A name derived from the combination of two Kichwa words, a variation of the Quechua language used in Ecuador and in Loreto in northern Peru: "kimray" meaning hillside or mountainside, and "kawsaki" meaning inhabitant.

Specimen Records (2)

MUBI 337 ♂ Holotype Peru

Cconoc, Abancay, 1840 m, Apurímac

December 2018 · col. J. C. Chaparro & L. Mamani

Holotype male of Thrixopelma kimraykawsaki.

MUBI 338 ♀ Paratype Peru

3-S Highway between Abancay and Limatambo, 2120 m, Apurímac

October 2017 · col. R. C. West & J. Richards

Paratype female of Thrixopelma kimraykawsaki; spermathecae figured.

Taxonomic History

Transferred from Thrixopelma to Ewok by Sherwood et al. (2025).

Bibliography (2)

Signorotto, F., Ferretti, N., Chaparro, J. C., Ochoa, J. A. & West, R. C. (2025). The genus Thrixopelma Schmidt, 1994 from Peru: redescription of the male of T. ockerti Schmidt, 1994 (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae), and a new species. Arachnology 20 (1): 107-114.

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.