Cyclosternum is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1871.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| 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
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| Species | |
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12, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
editAs 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
- Cyclosternum pulcherrimaklaasi (Schmidt, 1991) - Ecuador
Transferred to other genera
edit- 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
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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.
External links
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