Cyclosternum

Cyclosternum

Cyclosternum fasciatum, adult female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Genus:	Cyclosternum Ausserer, 1871
Type species
C. schmardae Ausserer, 1871
Species
12, see text
Synonyms
Adranochelia Simon, 1889 Chaetorhombus Ausserer, 1871 Dryptopelma Simon, 1889

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

Species

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

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

References

1 2 3 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.
1 2 Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 148.
↑ Pérez-Miles, F.; et al. (1996). "Systematic revision and cladistic analysis of Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae)". Mygalomorph. 1: 46.
↑ 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.

Taxon identifiers
Cyclosternum	Wikidata: Q2007841 Wikispecies: Cyclosternum ADW: Cyclosternum BioLib: 322254 CoL: 62PQF EoL: 111526 GBIF (old): 2154042 iNaturalist: 68745 IRMNG: 1053016 ITIS: 848181 NCBI: 1795719 Open Tree of Life: 3576231 Plazi: CD5187F1-303A-6C47-FF14-FC53FF6806AF WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00213

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