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]
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Scientific classification 
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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
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12, see text | |
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Species
editAs 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)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Lucas, S.; Bücherl, W. (1973). "Revision von Typenmaterial der Vogelspinnensammlung des Institutes Butantan". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 190: 241.
- ^ a b Pérez-Miles, F.; Capocasale, R. M. (1989). "Revision of the genus Pycnothele (Araneae, Nemesiidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 16: 288.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Chamberlin, R. V. (1917). "New spiders of the family Aviculariidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 61: 25–75.
- ^ 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.
Further reading
edit- 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.