Bumba (spider)
| Bumba | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Theraphosidae |
| Genus: | Bumba Pérez-Miles, Bonaldo & Miglio, 2014[1] |
| Type species | |
| Bumba cabocla (Pérez-Miles, 2000) | |
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Bumba is a genus of tarantula native to the Americas. It is an uncommon genus, comprised only of four known species, including one named after John Lennon.[2] Like most related species in the subfamily Theraphosinae, they may flick urticating hairs in response to threats.
Taxonomy
The genus was first described in 2000 by Fernando Pérez-Miles under the name Iracema; however this name was already in use for a genus of freshwater fish, so in 2005, Pérez-Miles proposed the replacement name Maraca. However, this too was already in use (for a species of cockroach) and in 2014 the replacement name Bumba was put forward by Pérez-Miles, Bonaldo & Miglio.[2]
The genus name, Bumba, refers to Brazilian folk theater; in the Northern Brazilian region where the spiders are found, there is a festival called Boi-bumbá, or "beat my bull".[2]
Species
As of February 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]
- Bumba cabocla (Perez-Miles, 2000) — Brazil
- Bumba horrida (Schmidt, 1994) — Brazil, Venezuela
- Bumba lennoni Pérez-Miles, Bonaldo & Miglio, 2014 — Brazil
- Bumba pulcherrimaklaasi (Schmidt, 1991) – Ecuador
References
- 1 2 "Gen. Bumba Pérez-Miles, Bonaldo & Miglio, 2014", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), retrieved 2016-02-06
- 1 2 3 Pérez-Miles, F.; Bonaldo, A.B. & Miglio, L.T. (2014), "Bumba, a replacement name for Maraca Pérez-Miles, 2005 and Bumba lennoni, a new tarantula species from western Amazonia (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Theraphosinae)", ZooKeys 448: 1–8, doi:10.3897/zookeys.448.7920