I think it's an Pamphobeteus sp but i don't know wich specie and i will to know it. The picture was taken in the jungle at Mera, the Pastaza, close to tropical Andes.
Panama and Ecuador are not geographically close. Not enough for a tarantula to have an undiscovered range, anyway. They are not masters of dispersal.
This is a mature male, and I would compare to Pamphobeteus petersi or perhaps Megaphobema velvetosoma. Peters notes in his description of P. petersi that specimens of the two species were mixed with one another, so they were difficult to distinguish (not mixed as in bred, but placed together as collected items of the same species).
Panama and Ecuador are not geographically close. Not enough for a tarantula to have an undiscovered range, anyway. They are not masters of dispersal.
This is a mature male, and I would compare to Pamphobeteus petersi or perhaps Megaphobema velvetosoma. Peters notes in his description of P. petersi that specimens of the two species were mixed with one another, so they were difficult to distinguish (not mixed as in bred, but placed together as collected items of the same species).
Around Mera are some bigger Theraphosinae and maybe more than one Pamphobeteus sp. (1)(2) but none Sericopelma.
There is also a Pamphobeteus sp were the female is similar to the female that SCHMIDT has described as P. petersi.
But "P. petersi" is another mess from SCHMIDT.
Finally i would say your specimen is a adult male of a Pamphobeteus sp.
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