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Issue: Vol. 1915 No. 1: 27 Oct. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-10-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1915.1.3
Page range: 54–68
Abstract views: 168
PDF downloaded: 1

Ami, a new Theraphosid genus from Central and South America, with the description of six new species (Araneae: Mygalomorphae)

Sección Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias, Iguá 4225, 11400 Montevideo, Uruguay
c/o Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, United Kingdom
Departamento de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Av. Magalhães Barata, 376, Caixa Postal 399, 66040-170, Belém, PA, Brazil
Departamento de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Av. Magalhães Barata, 376, Caixa Postal 399, 66040-170, Belém, PA, Brazil
23A Roumania Crescent, Llandudno, North Wales, LL30 1UP, United Kingdom
Corporación SurNeotrópica, Bogotá, Colombia
Instituto Butantan, Laboratorio de Imunoquimica, Av. Vital Brazil 1500, 05503-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Araneae Tarantula spider Neotropics systematics urticating hairs

Abstract

A new genus Ami Pérez-Miles is proposed for six new species: A. caxiuana Pérez-Miles, Miglio & Bonaldo, from Caxiuanã National Forest, Pará, Brasil, the type species; A. yupanquii Pérez-Miles, Gabriel & Gallon, from the area of Puyo, Equador; A. bladesi Pérez-Miles, Gabriel & Gallon, from Isla Colón, Panamá; A. pijaos Jimenez & Bertani, from Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia; A. amazonica Jimenez & Bertani, from Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia; and A. weinmanni PérezMiles, from La Azulita, Apure, Venezuela. Avicularia obscura (Ausserer 1875) is transferred to Ami and re-diagnosed. Diagnostic characters of Ami are the modification of Type I urticating hairs, with unusually longer area b, and one or two subconical processes on retrolateral face of male palpal tibiae. Females of Ami differ further from those of other theraphosid genera by their highly characteristic spermathecae: paired ventral receptacles attached to an almost discrete, semicircular, sclerotized back-plate.

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