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What the sources say about this taxon, as written.
description · 
Plazi
Note: Franganillo mentioned three females collected under rocks, but only one juvenile specimen could be located. No stridulatory bristless could be observed and so the inclusion in Cyrtopholis is doubful and is here considered species inquirenda. Franganillo synonymized Cyrtopholis implumis with Cyrtopholis ischnoculiforme without justifying the taxonomic act. Bonnet (1956) cited this species as valid after publishing a catalog of spiders described until 1939, the author ignored the synonym proposed by Franganillo (1931) and cited Cyclosternum ischnoculiforme and Cyrtopholis implumis as distinct species. The type material of Cyrtopholis implumis is lost making impossible further conclusions of this synonym.
description · Plazi
Note: species described from Guantanamo (19°96’S 75°37’W ). The description is very short and it does not mention whether the species was described based on male or female. He observed few stridulatory setae on the trochanter of first leg and about 20 setae on the trochanter of palp and, therefore, included the species in Cyrtopholis . Bonnet (1956) cited this species as valid after publishing a catalog of spiders described until 1939. The type–mate-rial could not be located in the different collections visited in Cuba and so it is considered a species inquirenda .
description · Plazi
Note: Franganillo described the species based on a female. He refers to one baciliform setae on the trochanter of the palp and one on first leg. He redescribed the species in 1935. Bonnet (1945) cited this species as valid after publishing a catalog of spiders described until 1939. Rudloff (1997) transferred it to Cyrtopholis , based on personal communication from Schmidt, who studied the holotype of C. obsoleta and observed the presence of stridulatory setae on trochanter of palp and first leg. The holotype could not be located and the original description does not permit identification. Consequently, we consider Cyrotopholis obsoleta as species inquirenda.
description · Plazi
Note: Bryant (1940) based his description on a juvenile female from San Blas, Cuba , transferred C. gibbosus to Sphaerobothria Karsch 1879 . Schmidt 1993 examined the specimen, deposited in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambrigde, USA , and observed the presence of stridulatory setae on trochanter of palp and first leg, and proposed the transfer back to Cyrtopholis .