Bumba (spider)

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{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Bumba

| image = Bumba horrida1.jpg

| image_caption = Bumba horrida in captivity

| authority = Pérez-Miles, Bonaldo & Miglio, 2014

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 8, see text

| type_species = Bumba horrida

| type_species_authority = (Pérez-Miles, 2000)

| synonyms = {{Specieslist

|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. Like most related species in the subfamily Theraphosinae, they may flick urticating hairs in response to threats.

Diagnosis

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.{{Cite journal |last1=Lucas |first1=Sylvia M. |last2=Passanha |first2=Victor |last3=Brescovit |first3=Antonio D. |date=2020-10-06 |title=New combination and redescription of Bumba humile, description of four new species and new records from Brazil (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae) |url=https://zoologia.pensoft.net/article/46744/ |journal=Zoologia |language=en |volume=37 |pages=1–17 |doi=10.3897/zoologia.37.e46744 |s2cid=224922781 |issn=1984-4689|doi-access=free }}

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.

= Etymology =

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".

= Species =

{{As of|2022|07}}, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following 8 species:

== In synonymy ==

== Transferred to other genera ==

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

References

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{{Citation |last1=Pérez-Miles |first1=F. |last2=Bonaldo |first2=A.B. |last3=Miglio |first3=L.T. |date=2014 |title=Bumba, a replacement name for Maraca Pérez-Miles, 2005 and Bumba lennoni, a new tarantula species from western Amazonia (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Theraphosinae) |journal=ZooKeys |issue=448 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.448.7920 |name-list-style=amp |pmid=25408606 |pmc=4233390|doi-access=free |bibcode=2014ZooK..448....1P }}

{{citation |title=Gen. Bumba Pérez-Miles, Bonaldo & Miglio, 2014 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5480 |access-date=11 November 2021}}

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Category:Theraphosidae

Category:Theraphosidae genera

Category:Spiders of South America