Family: Pycnothelidae Chamberlin, 1917 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0141] Back

Gen. Pycnothele Chamberlin, 1917 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00131 ]
N.B.: transferred from the Pycnothelidae to Nemesiidae (Pycnothenidae) by Raven, 1985a: 79 and back by revalidation of the family by Opatova et al., 2020: 701; considered a senior synonym of Agersborgia Strand, 1936: 167 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05004] (type Heteromma anomala Mello-Leitão, 1935 = Pycnothele perdita Chamberlin, 1917) (transferred from the Barychelidae to the Pycnothelidae) by Lucas & Bücherl, 1973: 241, Agersborgia is a replacement name for Heteromma Mello-Leitão, 1935c: 356 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05009], preoccupied in fossil Araneae by Menge, 1856; considered a senior synonym of Androthelopsis Mello-Leitão, 1934c: 401 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05005] (type A. singularis Mello-Leitão, 1934) (transferred from the Barychelidae to the Pycnothelidae by Lucas & Bücherl, 1973: 239) by Pérez-Miles & Capocasale, 1989: 288, Androthelopsis considered a senior synonym of Pycnothelopsis Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1942: 319 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05014] (type P. modesta Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1942) by Raven, 1985a: 101; considered a senior synonym of Neostothis Vellard, 1925: 79 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00126] (type N. gigas Vellard, 1925) by Montes de Oca et al., 2022: 11; Neostothis was removed from the synonymy of Chaco Tullgren, 1905 by Goloboff, 1995: 169; considered a senior synonym of Bayana Pérez-Miles, Costa & Montes de Oca, 2014: 1938 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04216] (type B. labordai Pérez-Miles, Costa & Montes de Oca, 2014) by Montes de Oca et al., 2022: 11.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2022-04-20
Described in
Chamberlin, 1917: 26 (type Pycnothele perdita Chamberlin, 1917; gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
12accepted
1synonym
Reference

Chamberlin, R. V. (1917). New spiders of the family Aviculariidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 61: 25-75. download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2022-01-12 Genus synonymy Montes de Oca et al., 2022 Bayana synonymized with Pycnothele
2022-01-12 Genus synonymy Montes de Oca et al., 2022 Neostothis synonymized with Pycnothele
2020-06-18 Genus transferred to other family Opatova et al., 2020 Pycnothele Chamberlin, 1917 transferred to Pycnothelidae