Yunka suenos Dupérré & Tapia, 2026

Described by Nadine Dupérré, Elicio Tapia

♀ Female described ♂ Male described
Live specimen Live specimen © Dupérré, Tapia & Salazar-Valenzuela (2026, fig. 18) — living male ECFN 904

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Dupérré, N., Tapia, E. & Salazar-Valenzuela, D. (2026). New Theraphosinae from Ecuador: description of five species (Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae, Romopelma, and Homoeomma) with the establishment of a new genus. Evolutionary Systematics 10: 217-261.

Distribution

Ecuador

Type Locality: ECUADOR: Cotopaxi Province, La Maná, 203 m

Adult Male Activity

Collection months of 1 adult male specimen record, against the rainfall where they live

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Adult males collected

Mean monthly rainfall and temperature 2001–2020 near the type locality, Cotopaxi Province, La Maná, 203 m. MERRA-2 via NASA POWER. Wet and dry seasons, from the rainfall at the locality itself.

Etymology

A noun in apposition from the type locality, la reserva Jardín de los Sueños, one of the last remaining foothill Chocó forests, for its work preserving what is left of Ecuador's biodiversity.

Specimen Records (2)

ECFN 1239 ♂ Holotype Ecuador

La Maná, 203 m, Cotopaxi

April 2018 · col. C. Tello

Holotype male of Yunka suenos, and so the name-bearing type of the genus (QCAZ). Total length 23.90 mm.

ECFN 12342 (Jardín de los Sueños) ♀ Paratype Ecuador

La Maná, Jardín de los Sueños, 562 m, Cotopaxi

August 2025

Paratype female of Yunka suenos, hand collected at the reserve the species is named for.

Bibliography (1)

Dupérré, N., Tapia, E. & Salazar-Valenzuela, D. (2026). New Theraphosinae from Ecuador: description of five species (Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae, Romopelma, and Homoeomma) with the establishment of a new genus. Evolutionary Systematics 10: 217-261.