Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Caribothele

Caribothele culebrae (Petrunkevitch, 1929)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2025-11-05
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002109]
  • Distribution: Puerto Rico
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Type deposit provide information
Taxonomic references
Ischnocolus culebrae Petrunkevitch, 1929b: 31, f. 18-24 (Df).
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. In: Pérez-Miles, F. (ed.) New World Tarantulas. Zoological Monographs, 6, pp. 77-91. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-48644-0_3 download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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 Detail
2025-11-05 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood et al., 2025e n/a
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 n/a (Old value)
2020-12-20 New taxonomic reference entry Guadanucci, 2020 n/a