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
Acanthogonatus pissii
Scientific classification Edit this 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

Genera

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

References

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  1. ^ a b "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.