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