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
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Domain: Eukaryota
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]

Species

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As of April 2022 it contains 12 species, found in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil:[1]

Formerly included:

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b Lucas, S.; Bücherl, W. (1973). "Revision von Typenmaterial der Vogelspinnensammlung des Institutes Butantan". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 190: 241.
  3. ^ a b Pérez-Miles, F.; Capocasale, R. M. (1989). "Revision of the genus Pycnothele (Araneae, Nemesiidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 16: 288.
  4. ^ a b 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.

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