Bumba (spider)

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

Bumba
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Bumba
Pérez-Miles, Bonaldo & Miglio, 2014[1]
Type species
Bumba cabocla
(Pérez-Miles, 2000)
Synonyms
  • Iracema Pérez-Miles, 2000
  • Maraca Pérez-Miles, 2005

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. "Gen. Bumba Pérez-Miles, Bonaldo & Miglio, 2014", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-02-06
  2. 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
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