Pycnothele

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

Species

As of June 2020 it contains ten 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 jatai Passanha, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014 – Brazil
• 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

• List of Pycnothelidae species

References

1. "Gen. Pycnothele Chamberlin, 1917". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. 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". Systematic Biology. 69 (4): 701–702. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz064.

Further reading

• Passanha, V.; et al. (2014). "Revision of the spider genus Pycnothele (Araneae, Nemesiidae)". Iheringia, Série Zoologia. 104 (2): 228–251.
• 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.