Ewok aymara

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Theraphosoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Mygalomorphae Superfamilia: Theraphosoidea

Familia: Theraphosidae
Subfamilia: Theraphosinae
Tribus: Hapalopini
Genus: Ewok
Species: Ewok aymara

Name

Ewok aymara (Chamberlin, 1916)

Type locality: Peru, Aymara.

Holotype: MCZ. female ♀. legit W.H. Jones.

Synonyms

• Eurypelma aymara Chamberlin, 1916: 201 (original combination)
• Thrixopelma aymara Chamberlin - Fukushima & Bertani, 2017: 125
• Ewok aymara Chamberlin - Sherwood et al., 2025: 10

References

Primary references

• Chamberlin, R.V. 1916. Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911. The Arachnida. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60: 177-299. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Fukushima, C.S. & Bertani, R. 2017. Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of Avicularia Lamarck, 1818 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae) with description of three new aviculariine genera. ZooKeys 659: 1–185. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.659.10717 Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J., León-Escalante, R.J., Rollard, C., Leguin, E.A., Brescovit, A.D. & Lucas, S.M. 2025a. 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. Reference page.