Thrixopelma ockerti Schmidt, 1994

Common name: Flame Rump Tree Spider

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Female © Rick C. West, in Signorotto et al. (2025), female near the mouth of Nauta Caño, Loreto

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Bibliography

Schmidt, G. (1994). Eine neue Vogelspinnenart aus Peru, Thrixopelma ockerti gen. et sp. n. (Araneida: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Arachnologisches Magazin 2(2): 3-8.

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

Adult Male Activity

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Etymology

Thrix (Gr): hair, bristle; Pelma (Gr): Sole of foot - Ockerti = Named after the collector Roland Ockert

Specimen Records (3)

SMF 40592-84 ♀ Type Peru

Peru (Mittel-, Südamerika; no precise locality)

col. G. Schmidt det.

Syntype female exuvia of Thrixopelma ockerti; not examined in this work. Schmidt (1994) based the species on exuviae without precise locality information.

SMF 57974-84 ♀ Type Peru

Peru (Mittel-, Südamerika; no precise locality)

col. G. Schmidt det.

Syntype female exuvia of Thrixopelma ockerti, accompanied by two slides holding the dissected exuvial spermathecae of the syntypes; not examined in this work.

MUSM-ENT 516826 ♂ Peru

Iquitos, Loreto

April 2023

Three males of Thrixopelma ockerti, confiscated from the illegal pet trade and used for the first redescription of the male, including the first analysis of the palpal bulb keels. No collector recorded. Note: Fig. 1C-D of the paper labels this specimen "holotype male", but the text treats it as a non-type — T. ockerti was described from two female exuviae and no holotype was ever designated.