Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Family |   ACCEPTED
Gen. Cyriopagopus Simon, 1887 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00215
type Cyriopagopus paganus Simon, 1887; gender masculine

N.B.: not a senior synonym of Melognathus Chamberlin, 1917 per Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019c: 145 (rejecting Raven, 1985a: 156); not a senior synonym of Haplopelma Simon, 1892 and of Melopoeus Pocock, 1895 per Smith, Daniel & Vignaud, 2026a: 25 (rejecting Smith & Jacobi, 2015: 28); not a nomen dubium as holotype has been found in NZC-ZSI, Kolkata, India per Smith, Daniel & Vignaud, 2026b: 47.

Transferred to other genera:

Cyriopagopus albostriatus (Simon, 1886) -- see Melopoeus

Cyriopagopus doriae (Thorell, 1890) -- see Haplopelma

Cyriopagopus dromeus (Chamberlin, 1917) -- see Melognathus

Cyriopagopus hainanus (Liang, Peng, Huang & Chen, 1999) -- see Melopoeus

Cyriopagopus huwenus (Wang, Peng & Xie, 1993) -- see Melopoeus

Cyriopagopus lividus (Smith, 1996) -- see Melopoeus

Cyriopagopus longipes (von Wirth & Striffler, 2005) -- see Melopoeus

Cyriopagopus minax (Thorell, 1897) -- see Melopoeus

Cyriopagopus robustus (Strand, 1907) -- see Haplopelma

Cyriopagopus schioedtei (Thorell, 1891) -- see Omothymus

Cyriopagopus schmidti (von Wirth, 1991) -- see Melopoeus

Cyriopagopus thorelli (Simon, 1901) -- see Omothymus

Cyriopagopus vonwirthi (Schmidt, 2005) -- see Melopoeus

Nomen dubium:

Cyriopagopus salangensis (Strand, 1907l: 67, f, Malaysia, originally in Melopoeus) -- Nentwig et al., 2020: 26

Cyriopagopus paganus Simon, 1887 | | Myanmar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001960 TYPE SPECIES
Cyriopagopus paganus Simon, 1887i: 111 (Df) Original description
Cyriopagopus paganus Smith, Daniel & Vignaud, 2026a: 25 (type not found, deemed lost, unidentifiable, nomen dubium)
Cyriopagopus paganus Smith, Daniel & Vignaud, 2026b: 48, f. 1, 5-7, 10 (f, removed from nomen dubium, type found in NZC-ZSI, Kolkata, India)

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