Cyclosternum

Genus of spiders

Cyclosternum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Cyclosternum
Ausserer, 1871[1]
Type species
C. schmardae
Ausserer, 1871
Species

12, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Adranochelia Simon, 1889[2]
  • Chaetorhombus Ausserer, 1871[2]
  • Dryptopelma Simon, 1889[3]

Cyclosternum is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1871.[4]

Species

As of July 2022[update] it contains twelve species, found in South America, Costa Rica, and Mexico:[1]

  • Cyclosternum darienense Gabriel & Sherwood, 2022 = Panama
  • Cyclosternum familiare (Simon, 1889) – Venezuela
  • Cyclosternum garbei (Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
  • Cyclosternum gaujoni Simon, 1889 – Ecuador
  • Cyclosternum janthinum (Simon, 1889) – Ecuador
  • Cyclosternum kochi (Ausserer, 1871) – Venezuela
  • Cyclosternum ledezmae (Vol, 2001) – Bolivia
  • Cyclosternum palomeranum West, 2000 – Mexico
  • Cyclosternum rufohirtum (Simon, 1889) – Venezuela
  • Cyclosternum schmardae Ausserer, 1871 (type) – Colombia, Ecuador
  • Cyclosternum spinopalpus (Schaefer, 1996) – Paraguay
  • Cyclosternum viridimonte Valerio, 1982 – Costa Rica

Nomen dubium

  • Cyclosternum pulcherrimaklaasi (Schmidt, 1991) - Ecuador

Transferred to other genera

  • C. bicolor (Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1945) → Cyriocosmus bicolor
  • C. chickeringi (Caporiacco, 1955) → Tmesiphantes chickeringi (Nomina dubia)
  • C. crassifemur (Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1960) → Tmesiphantes crassifemur
  • C. fasciatum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892) → Davus fasciatus
  • C. hirsutum (Mello-Leitão, 1935) → Homoeomma hirsutum
  • C. ischnoculiforme Franganillo, 1926 → Cyrtopholis ischnoculiformis
  • C. janeirum (Keyserling, 1891) → Tmesiphantes janeira
  • C. longipes (Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1945) → Holothele longipes
  • C. macropus (Ausserer, 1875) → Pseudoschizopelma macropus
  • C. majus Franganillo, 1926 → Cyrtopholis major
  • C. melloleitaoi Bücherl, Timotheo & Lucas, 1971 → Vitalius nondescriptus
  • C. minensis (Mello-Leitão, 1943) → Plesiopelma minense
  • C. multicuspidatum (Mello-Leitão, 1929) → Proshapalopus multicuspidatus
  • C. nubilum (Simon, 1892) → Tmesiphantes nubilus
  • C. obesum (Simon, 1892) → Bonnetina obscura (Nomina dubia)
  • C. obscurum Simon, 1891 → Bonnetina obscura
  • C. pentalore (Simon, 1888) → Davus pentaloris
  • C. physopus (Mello-Leitão, 1926) → Plesiopelma physopus
  • C. rondoni (Lucas & Bücherl, 1972) → Holothele longipes
  • C. semiaurantiacum Simon, 1897 → Plesiopelma semiaurantiacum
  • C. serratum (Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1958) → Homoeomma uruguayense
  • C. stylipum Valerio, 1982 → Stichoplastoris stylipus
  • C. symmetricum (Bücherl, 1949) → Plesiopelma insulare

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Cyclosternum Ausserer, 1871". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
  2. ^ a b Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 148.
  3. ^ Pérez-Miles, F.; et al. (1996). "Systematic revision and cladistic analysis of Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae)". Mygalomorph. 1: 46.
  4. ^ Ausserer, A. (1871). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor)". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 21: 117–224.

External links

  • Data related to Cyclosternum at Wikispecies
  • Media related to Cyclosternum at Wikimedia Commons
Taxon identifiers
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