Tandayarachne pijaos

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Theraphosoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota 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
Genus: Tandayarachne
Species: Tandayarachne pijaos

Name

Tandayarachne pijaos (Jimenez & Bertani in Pérez-Miles et al., 2008)

Type locality: Vereda La Coqueta, 1290 m, Ibagué, Departamento de Tolima, Colombia.

Holotype: ICNMHN. male ♂. 03.III.2002. legit H. Pulido.

Synonymy

• Ami pijaos Jimenez & Bertani in Pérez-Miles et al., 2008: 62–63. (original combination)
• Neischnocolus pijaos Perez-Miles et al. 2019: 154
• Tandayarachne pijaos Jimenez & Bertani - Peñaherrera-Romero & Guayasamin, 2025

References

Primary references

• Pérez-Miles, F., Gabriel, R., Miglio, L., Bonaldo, A., Gallon, R., Jiménez, J.J. & Bertani, R. 2008. Ami, a new Theraphosid genus from Central and South America, with the description of six new species (Araneae: Mygalomorphae). Zootaxa 1915: 54–68. Abstract & excerpt.. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J. & Guayasamin, J.M. 2025. Between cloud forests and museums: testing tarantula (Araneae: Theraphosidae) generic boundaries reveals a new montane genus from Ecuador and Colombia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 205(3): zlaf152. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf152. Reference page.