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Genus: Cyclosternum Ausserer, 1871 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Cyclosternum matildeae (Peñaherrera-R., Sherwood, Gabriel & Ghia, 2024)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060056

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Described:

Distribution: Ecuador

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Invertebrates, Pontifícia Universidad Católica, Quito (QCAZ), Ecuador m (274338) - (Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2024a)

Taxonomic References

Cymbiapophysa matildeae Peñaherrera-R., Sherwood, Gabriel & Ghia in Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2024a: 1006, f. 3-7 (Dm) Original description

Cyclosternum matildeae Peñaherrera-R. & Guayasamin, 2025: 8 (T from Cymbiapophysa)

References

Peñaherrera-R., P., Ghia, T., Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. (2024a). New insights on male palpal bulb morphology in Cymbiapophysa Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020, with four new species from Ecuador (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(7): 1003-1017. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.19.7.1003 -- Show included taxa

Peñaherrera-R., P. & Guayasamin, J. M. (2025). Between cloud forests and museums: testing tarantula (Araneae: Theraphosidae) generic boundaries reveals a new montane genus from Ecuador and Colombia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 205(3, zlaf152): 1-24. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf152 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2025-11-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Peñaherrera-R. & Guayasamin, 2025
2025-11-09	Species transferred to new genus	Peñaherrera-R. & Guayasamin, 2025	Species transferred from Cymbiapophysa to Cyclosternum
2024-03-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2024a
2024-03-05	New species inserted	Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2024a