Pycnothele

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
12, see text
Synonyms [1]
Agersborgia Strand, 1936 [2] Androthelopsis Mello-Leitão, 1934 [3] PycnothelopsisSchiapelli & Gerschman, 1942 [4]

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]

Species

As of April 2022 ^[update] it contains 12 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 gigas (Vellard, 1925) – Brazil
• Pycnothele jatai Passanha, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014 – Brazil
• Pycnothele labordai (Pérez-Miles, Costa & Montes de Oca, 2014) – Brazil, Uruguay
• 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 )

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" (PDF). 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.