Pycnothelidae

Pycnothelidae
Acanthogonatus pissii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Clade:	Avicularioidea
Family:	Pycnothelidae Chamberlin, 1917
Diversity [1]
15 genera, 139 species

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]

Genera

As of March 2022 ^[update] , the World Spider Catalog accepted the following genera: ^[1]

• Acanthogonatus Karsch, 1880 – South America
• Afromygale Zonstein, 2020
• Chaco Tullgren, 1905 — Argentina, Uruguay, Chile
• Chilelopsis Goloboff, 1995 — Chile
• Longistylus Indicatti & Lucas, 2005 — Brazil
• Lycinus Thorell, 1894 — Chile, Argentina, Brazil
• Pionothele Purcell, 1902 – South Africa, Namibia
• Prorachias Mello-Leitão, 1924 — Brazil
• Psalistopoides Mello-Leitão, 1934 — Brazil
• Pselligmus Simon, 1892 — Brazil
• Pycnothele Chamberlin, 1917 – Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina
• Rachias Simon, 1892 — Brazil, Argentina Pycnothelidae
• Stanwellia Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 – Australia, New Zealand
• Stenoterommata Holmberg, 1881 – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
• Xenonemesia Goloboff, 1989 — South America

References

1. "Family: Pycnothelidae Chamberlin, 1917". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
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 . PMID   31841157.