Warmiru lagunas Schmidt & Rudloff, 2010

Described by Gunter Schmidt, Jan-Peter Rudloff

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Schmidt, G. & Rudloff, J. (2010). Thrixopelma lagunas sp. n., eine bisher unbekannte Vogelspinnenart aus Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Arthropoda Scientia 1: 8-14.

Distribution

Peru

Type Locality: südlich von Lagunas/Peru, 5°20’S 75°42’W

Etymology

The species was named after the archaeological site in Peru.

Genitalia

Male palp — Male palp © Sherwood et al. (2025, fig. 10) — holotype male SMF 66757-84

Taxonomic History

2010
Thrixopelma lagunas Schmidt & Rudloff, 2010
Transferred from Thrixopelma to Warmiru by Sherwood et al. (2025). The genus name is Quechua warmi (woman) plus uru (spider), dedicated to all women who have worked as arachnologists.

Bibliography (2)

Schmidt, G. & Rudloff, J. (2010). Thrixopelma lagunas sp. n., eine bisher unbekannte Vogelspinnenart aus Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Arthropoda Scientia 1: 8-14.

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.