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Bumba (spider)

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Bumba
Bumba horrida in captivity
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Subfamily: Theraphosinae
Genus: Bumba
Pérez-Miles, Bonaldo & Miglio, 2014[1]
Type species
Bumba horrida
(Pérez-Miles, 2000)
Species

8, see text

Synonyms
  • Iracema Pérez-Miles, 2000
  • Maraca Pérez-Miles, 2005

Bumba is a genus of tarantula native to the Americas. It is an uncommon genus, comprising eight 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.

Diagnosis

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They can be distinguished by the type 5 urticating hairs, and the palpal bulb resting in a "ventral distal excavation" of the pedipalp's tibia. The metatarsus number 1 passes between two branches of the tibial apophysis when flexed and the presence of spine like hairs on the maxillae and coxae 1 through 4.[3]

Taxonomy

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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]

Etymology

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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

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As of July 2022, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following 8 species:[1]

In synonymy

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Transferred to other genera

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  • Bumba pulcherrimaklaasi (Schmidt, 1991)Cyclosternum pulcherrimaklaasi (Nomen dubium)

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Bumba Pérez-Miles, Bonaldo & Miglio, 2014", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 11 November 2021
  2. ^ a b c 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, PMC 4233390, PMID 25408606
  3. ^ Lucas, Sylvia M.; Passanha, Victor; Brescovit, Antonio D. (2020-10-06). "New combination and redescription of Bumba humile, description of four new species and new records from Brazil (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae)". Zoologia. 37: 1–17. doi:10.3897/zoologia.37.e46744. ISSN 1984-4689. S2CID 224922781.