Pycnothele

Pycnothele is a genus of South American mygalomorph spiders in the family Pycnothelidae. First described by Ralph Vary Chamberlin in 1917,[5] it was moved to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,[4] but moved back to Pycnothelidae in 2020.[6] It is a senior synonym of Agersborgia[2] and Androthelopsis.[3]

Pycnothele
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Pycnothelidae
Genus: Pycnothele
Chamberlin, 1917[1]
Type species
P. perdita
Chamberlin, 1917
Species

10, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of June 2020 it contains ten species, found in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil:[1]

  • Pycnothele arapongas Passanha, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014 – Brazil
  • Pycnothele araraquara Passanha, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014 – Brazil
  • Pycnothele auripila (Mello-Leitão, 1946) – Uruguay
  • Pycnothele auronitens (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
  • Pycnothele gauderio Passanha, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014 – Brazil
  • Pycnothele jatai Passanha, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014 – Brazil
  • Pycnothele modesta (Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1942) – Uruguay, Argentina
  • Pycnothele perdita Chamberlin, 1917 (type) – Brazil
  • Pycnothele rubra Passanha, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014 – Brazil
  • Pycnothele singularis (Mello-Leitão, 1934) – Brazil

Formerly included:

  • P. piracicabensis (Piza, 1938) (Transferred to Rachias)

See also

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Pycnothele Chamberlin, 1917". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
  2. Lucas, S.; Bücherl, W. (1973). "Revision von Typenmaterial der Vogelspinnensammlung des Institutes Butantan". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 190: 241.
  3. Pérez-Miles, F.; Capocasale, R. M. (1989). "Revision of the genus Pycnothele (Araneae, Nemesiidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 16: 288.
  4. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 79–101.
  5. Chamberlin, R. V. (1917). "New spiders of the family Aviculariidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 61: 25–75.
  6. Opatova, V.; et al. (2020). "Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data". Systematic Biology. 69 (4): 701–702. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz064. PMID 31841157.

Further reading
  • Passanha, V.; et al. (2014). "Revision of the spider genus Pycnothele (Araneae, Nemesiidae)". Iheringia, Série Zoologia. 104 (2): 228–251. doi:10.1590/1678-476620141042228251.
  • Bücherl, W. (1957). "Sôbre a importância dos bulbos copuladores e das apófises tibiais dos machos na sistemática das aranhas caranguejeiras (Orthognatha)". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 29: 377–416.


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