Pycnothelidae

Pycnothelidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders first described in 1917.[2] It was downgraded to a subfamily of the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,[3] but returned to family status in 2020.[4]

Pycnothelidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Clade: Avicularioidea
Family: Pycnothelidae
Chamberlin,1917
Diversity[1]
6 genera, 97 species

Genera

As of June 2020, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following genera:[1]

  • Acanthogonatus Karsch, 1880 – South America
  • Bayana Pérez-Miles, Costa & Montes de Oca, 2014
  • Pionothele Purcell, 1902 – South Africa, Namibia
  • Pycnothele Chamberlin, 1917 – Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina
  • Stanwellia Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 – Australia, New Zealand
  • Stenoterommata Holmberg, 1881 – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina

References

  1. "Family: Pycnothelidae Chamberlin,1917". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
  2. Chamberlin, R. V. (1917). "New spiders of the family Aviculariidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 61: 25–75.
  3. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 86.
  4. 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.


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