Ewok pruriens Schmidt, 1998

Common name: Peruvian Green Velvet, Chilean spiny

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Distribution

Peru

Taxonomic History

Transferred from Thrixopelma to Ewok by Sherwood et al. (2025), who give the range as Peru, "purportedly also Chile".

Bibliography (2)

Schmidt, G. (1997). Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Gattungen der Unterfamilie Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnologisches Magazin 3(Sonderausgabe): 1-27.

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.