Spinosatibiapalpus neisi Osorio, Benavides & Bolaño-Manjarres, 2024

Described by Luis M. Osorio, Léiner Benavides, Emel Darío Bolaño-Manjarres

♂ Male described

Male © Bolaño-Manjarres et al. (2024), holotype male in vivo

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Bolaño-Manjarres, E. D., Benavides, L., Tamaris-Turizo, C. E. & Osorio, L. M. (2024). Two new species of Spinosatibiapalpus Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Colombia. Arachnology 19 (9): 1205-1210.

Distribution

Colombia

Type Locality: Saldaña, Tolima department, 290 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, Colombia. MERRA-2 via NASA POWER, for a grid cell averaging 328 m. Wet and dry seasons, from the rainfall at the locality itself.

Etymology

The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of the researcher and teacher Neis J. Martínez for his relevant contribution to the knowledge of the ecology of several groups of arthropods in the Colombian tropical dry forest.

Specimen Records (1)

CBUMAG:ARA:00015 ♂ Holotype Colombia

Saldaña, 290 m; ground hand collecting on the bank of the Saldaña River, Tolima

October 2022 · col. L. Osorio

Holotype male of Spinosatibiapalpus neisi. Collected 21 October 2022 as a subadult from a silk-lined burrow and reared to maturity on 28 March 2023.