Etymology : The specific epithet is a matronym in honour of our friend and colleague Christine Rollard (Curator of Araneae, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris)
Two new species of Thrixopelma Schmidt, 1994 are described from Peru based on historic male
specimens: Thrixopelma christineae sp. nov. and Thrixopelma eliseanneae sp. nov., both deposited
in the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris. This work increases the diversity of this genus to
ten, and the total number of congeners known from Peru to nine.
