Taxonomy of the genus Cyrtopholis Simon, 1892 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae): Cuban species described by Pelegrín Franganillo Balboa

Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-10T17:32:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-05-18 Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) Program of Sandwich Doctorate in Exterior (PSDE 2016.1) Cyrtopholis Simon 1892 is a spider genus from the Caribbean islands characterized by the presence of stridulatory setae on trochanter of palps and legs I. Franganillo Balboa described eight species of Cyrtopholis Simon 1892 from Cuba between 1926-1936. The type-material is deposited in the Instituto de Ecologia y Sistematica do Ministerio de Ciencias, Tecnologia e Meio Ambiente, La Habana, Cuba. Four species are redescribed here: Cvrtopholis plumosa Franganillo, 1931, Cyrtopholis major Franganillo. 1926, Cyrtopholis unispina Franganillo, 1926 and Cyrtopholis gibbosa Franganillo, 1936. Cvrtopholis ischnoculoformis Franganillo, 1926 is based on a juvenile specimen without stridulatory setae, and it is therefore considered here as species inquirenda. The type-material of two other species were not located: Cyrtopholis anacanta Franganillo, 1935 and Cyrtopholis obsoleta (Franganillo, 1935), and are considered to be lost. These two species are here considered as species inquirenda, since the original descriptions do not permit identification. Cyrtopholis respina Franganillo 1935 is considered a nomen dubium, due to the lack of a formal description and a doubtful citation. Univ Fed Paraiba, Dept Sistemat & Ecol, Programa Posgrad Ciencias Biol, Ctr Ciencias Exatas & Nat, Campus 1 Cidade Univ Joao Pessoa, BR-58050970 Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista Rio Claw, Dept Biodiversidade, Inst Biociencias, Av 24,1515 Bairro Bela Vista, BR-13506900 Rio Claro, SP, Brazil Museo Nacl Hist Nat Cuba, Plaza Armas,Calle Obispo 61, Havana 10100, Cuba Inst Butantan, Lab Especial Colecoes Zool, Av Vital Brasil 1500, BR-05503900 Sao Paulo, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista Rio Claw, Dept Biodiversidade, Inst Biociencias, Av 24,1515 Bairro Bela Vista, BR-13506900 Rio Claro, SP, Brazil CAPES: CAPES - 24001015029P6 Program of Sandwich Doctorate in Exterior (PSDE 2016.1): 88881.134117