Cyclosternum matildeae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Theraphosoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Mygalomorphae Superfamilia: Theraphosoidea

Familia: Theraphosidae
Subfamilia: Theraphosinae
Tribe: Theraphosini
Genus: Cyclosternum
Species: Cyclosternum matildeae

Name

Cyclosternum matildeae (Peñaherrera-Romero et al., 2024)

Type locality: Mindo, Parish of San Miguel de Los Bancos, Province of Pichincha, Republic of Ecuador.

Holotype: QCAZI. male ♂. 26.XI.1992. legit E. Bejarano. QCAZI 274338.

Synonymy

• Cymbiapophysa matildeae Peñaherrera-Romero et al., 2024: 1006 Original combination)
• Cyclosternum matildeae Peñaherrera-Romero et al. - Peñaherrera-R. & Guayasamin, 2025: 8

References

Primary references

• Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J., Ghia, T., Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. 2024. 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. . Reference page. 

Additional references

• Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J. & 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. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf152. Reference page.