Cyriopagopus paganus Simon, 1887

Common name: Thai Tiger

nomen dubium ♀ Female described

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Simon, E. (1887). E'tude sur lea Arachnides de l'Asie meridionale faisant partie des collections de l'Indian Museum (Calcutta). I. Arachnides recueillis a Tavoy (Tenasserim) par Moti Ram. J. asiat. Soc. Bengal 56: 101-117.
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Distribution

Myanmar

Type Locality: MYANMAR: Egaya, Tanintharyi Region; holotype female in MNHN

Taxonomic History

  1. 2026
    Ono et al. (2026) mark this species as not rediscovered since its original record before 1970 in their checklist of the Myanmar fauna.
  2. Recorded in Myanmar from Tanintharyi Region (Ono et al., 2026).
  3. 2026
    Smith, Daniel & Vignaud (2026) declare this species — and with it the genus Cyriopagopus, of which it is the only member — a nomen dubium. Smith and Daniel examined a fragmentary juvenile at the Zoological Survey of India in September 2001 and believed it to be the type; in July 2025 the current curator confirmed it cannot be found and is deemed lost. A Zoological Survey of India report for 1942–1945 states that all arachnological type material, along with the accession books, was destroyed in September 1943 when the Varuna river flooded the Kaiser Building, the wartime emergency refuge for the Indian Museum and ZSI collections.

Bibliography (3)

Simon, E. (1887). E'tude sur lea Arachnides de l'Asie meridionale faisant partie des collections de l'Indian Museum (Calcutta). I. Arachnides recueillis a Tavoy (Tenasserim) par Moti Ram. J. asiat. Soc. Bengal 56: 101-117.
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Ono, H., Suzuki, Y., Okumura, K. & Aung, M. M. (2026). Spider Fauna of Myanmar, with a Checklist of the Species Recorded from 1878 to 2025 (Arachnida, Araneae). Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series A 52(1): 1-56.
Smith, A., Daniel, B. & Vignaud, B. (2026). Nomenclatural notes on the Ornithoctoninae genera Cyriopagopus Simon 1887, Haplopelma Simon 1892 and Melopoeus Pocock 1895 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) with the intention of restoring the genera Haplopelma and Melopoeus. Journal of the British Tarantula Society 40(3): 15-28.
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