Thrixopelma 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

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Bibliography

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.

Distribution

Peru

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

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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.