Cyrtopholis bryantae Rudloff, 1995

♀ Female described

Female

Female

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Rudloff, J. (1995). Una nueva especie de Cyrtopholis de San Blas (Cienfuegos) - Cuba (Theraphosidae: Mygalomorphae) incluido una comparación entre Cyrtopholis gibbosus Franganillo 1936 y Cyrtopholis regibbosus Rudloff 1994. Garciana 23: 14-20.

Distribution

Cuba

Type Locality: San Blas, Cuba

Etymology

a patronym for Elizabeth Bryant

Taxonomic History

1995
Rudloff (1995) published the name as C. bryanti, a lapsus calami — the species honours Elizabeth Bangs Bryant, so the epithet should be feminine. Peters (2003) and Schmidt (2003) both used bryantae; Abegg et al. (2016) argued the original spelling should be restored. Sherwood, Blick & Ballarin (2025) reject that restoration and maintain bryantae, on the grounds that the original authors were not Latinists and the name must be read as having been established in the singular.

Bibliography (2)

Rudloff, J. (1995). Una nueva especie de Cyrtopholis de San Blas (Cienfuegos) - Cuba (Theraphosidae: Mygalomorphae) incluido una comparación entre Cyrtopholis gibbosus Franganillo 1936 y Cyrtopholis regibbosus Rudloff 1994. Garciana 23: 14-20.

Sherwood, D., Blick, T. & Ballarin, F. (2025). Studies on spider nomenclature IV: additional dubious and unavailable nomina, status of genera with invalid type species, further synonymies, and emendations (Arachnida: Araneae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 47: 43-54.