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Genus: Caribothele Sherwood, Gabriel, Peñaherrera-R., Rollard, Leguin & Privet, 2025 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Caribothele culebrae (Petrunkevitch, 1929)

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Described:

Distribution: Puerto Rico

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA f - (Sherwood et al., 2025e)

Taxonomic References

Ischnocolus culebrae Petrunkevitch, 1929b: 31, f. 18-24 (Df) Original description

Holothele culebrae Rudloff, 1997a: 8, f. 23 (f, T from Ischnocolus)

Holothele aff. culebrae Guadanucci, 2020: 88, f. 3.4F-J, 3.5O (mf)

Caribothele culebrae Sherwood et al., 2025e: 102, f. 1A-K, 2A-F, 3A-D, 4A-B (Dm, f, T from Holothele)

References

Guadanucci, J. P. L. (2020). Ischnocolinae and Schismatothelinae. Zoological Monographs, 6, pp. 77-91. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-48644-0_3 -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1929b). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part one. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 1-158. -- Show included taxa

Rudloff, J.-P. (1997a). Revision der Gattung Holothele Karsch, 1879 nebst Aufstellung einer neuen Gattung Stichoplastoris gen. nov. (Araneae, Theraphosidae) und Wiedereinsetzung einiger weiterer Gattungen der Mygalomorphae. Arachnologisches Magazin 5(2): 1-19. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P., Rollard, C., Leguin, E.-A. & Privet, K. (2025e). Hidden treasures of the Caribbean: two new genera and one new species of Lesser Antillean ischnocoline spiders (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Natura Somogyiensis 46: 99-116. doi: 10.24394/NatSom.2025.46.99 -- Show included taxa

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-11-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood et al., 2025e
2025-11-05	Species transferred to new genus	Sherwood et al., 2025e		Species transferred from Holothele to Caribothele
2025-11-05	First description of male	Sherwood et al., 2025e	Old value
2020-12-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Guadanucci, 2020