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Genus: Cyrtopholis Simon, 1892 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Cyrtopholis intermedia (Ausserer, 1875)

SPECIES | NOMEN DUBIUM

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001975

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Described:

Distribution: South America

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f - (Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1979)

Taxonomic References

Crypsidromus intermedius Ausserer, 1875: 180 (Df) Original description

Cyrtopholis intermedius Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1979: 297 (removed from S of Phormictopus cancerides)

Cyrtopholis intermedia Sherwood et al., 2024f: 1306 (type lost, not identifiable, nomen dubium)

References

Ausserer, A. (1875). Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 25: 125-206, pl. 5-7. -- Show included taxa

Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman de P., B. S. (1979). Las arañas de la subfamilia Theraphosinae (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 5: 287-300. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Questel, K., Rollard, C. & Leguin, E.-A. (2024f). A new species of Cyrtopholis Simon, 1892 from Montserrat with notes on some other Caribbean theraphosines (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(9): 1298-1307. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.19.9.1298 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-11-04	Taxon is nomen dubium	Sherwood et al., 2024f		Cyrtopholis intermedia (Ausserer, 1875) declared a nomen dubium
2024-11-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood et al., 2024f