Cyclosternum

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

Cyclosternum
Scientific classification
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

11, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of March 2020 it contains eleven species, found in South America, Costa Rica, and Mexico:[1]

  • 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

Among species transferred to other genera are:[1]

  • Cyclosternum bicolor (Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1945) → Cyriocosmus
  • Cyclosternum chickeringi (Caporiacco, 1955) → Tmesiphantes
  • Cyclosternum crassifemur (Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1960) → Melloleitaoina
  • Cyclosternum ischnoculiforme Franganillo, 1926 → Cyrtopholis
  • Cyclosternum janeirum (Keyserling, 1891) → Magulla
  • Cyclosternum longipes (Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1945) → Holothele
  • Cyclosternum macropus (Ausserer, 1875) → Acentropelma
  • Cyclosternum majus Franganillo, 1926 → Cyrtopholis
  • Cyclosternum melloleitaoi Bücherl, Timotheo & Lucas, 1971 → Vitalius
  • Cyclosternum nubilum (Simon, 1892) → Tmesiphantes
  • Cyclosternum obesum (Simon, 1892) → Magulla
  • Cyclosternum obscurum Simon, 1891 → Bonnetina
  • Cyclosternum pentalore (Simon, 1888) → Davus
  • Cyclosternum physopus (Mello-Leitão, 1926) → Tmesiphantes
  • Cyclosternum rondoni (Lucas & Bücherl, 1972) → Holothele
  • Cyclosternum semiaurantiacum Simon, 1897 → Plesiopelma
  • Cyclosternum serratum (Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1958) → Homoeomma
  • Cyclosternum stylipum Valerio, 1982 → Stichoplastoris
  • Cyclosternum symmetricum (Bücherl, 1949) → Plesiopelma

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Cyclosternum Ausserer, 1871". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
  2. 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.

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