Pycnothele

Pycnothele
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Pycnothelidae
Genus:	Pycnothele; Chamberlin, 1917
Type species
	P. perdita; Chamberlin, 1917
Species
	12, see text
Synonyms
	Agersborgia Strand, 1936; Androthelopsis Mello-Leitão, 1934; Pycnothelopsis Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1942;

Pycnothele is a genus of South American mygalomorph spiders in the family Pycnothelidae. First described by Ralph Vary Chamberlin in 1917, it was moved to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, but moved back to Pycnothelidae in 2020. It is a senior synonym of Agersborgia and Androthelopsis.

Species

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

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:

1 2 3 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.
1 2 Lucas, S.; Bücherl, W. (1973). "Revision von Typenmaterial der Vogelspinnensammlung des Institutes Butantan". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 190: 241.
1 2 Pérez-Miles, F.; Capocasale, R. M. (1989). "Revision of the genus Pycnothele (Araneae, Nemesiidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 16: 288.
1 2 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" (PDF). Systematic Biology. 69 (4): 701–702. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz064. PMID 31841157.