Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0010] Back
Gen.
Trichopelma Simon, 1888 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00185 ]
N.B.: transferred from the Barychelidae to the Theraphosidae by Guadanucci, 2014: 514, confirmed by Mori & Bertani, 2020; belongs probably to Barychelidae after Tamayo, 2017: 196; considered a senior synonym of Stothis Simon, 1889m: 198 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05137] (type S. coenobita Simon, 1889), Hapalopinus Simon, 1903a: 930 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05111] (type H. cubanus Simon, 1903), Merothele Petrunkevitch, 1925a: 91 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05122] (type M. zebra Petrunkevitch, 1925), Obaerarius Petrunkevitch, 1926: 40 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05126] (type O. insulanus Petrunkevitch, 1926) and Leptofischelia Strand, 1929: 18 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05118] (replacement name for Leptostylus Fischel, 1927: 65 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05117] (type L. scopulatus Fischel 1927), preoccupied in Coleoptera by LeConte, 1852) by Raven, 1985a: 153.
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2024-03-13
2024-03-13
Described in
Simon, 1888b: 215 (type Trichopelma nitidum Simon, 1888; gender neuter)
Simon, 1888b: 215 (type Trichopelma nitidum Simon, 1888; gender neuter)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 28 | accepted |
| 5 | synonym |
| 3 | nomen dubium |
| 1 | homonym replaced |
Reference
Edit history
Simon, E. (1888b). Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXIX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'Amérique centrale et des Antilles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 8: 203-216. 
| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-11-19 | Genus transferred to other family | Guadanucci, 2014 | Trichopelma Simon, 1888 transferred to Theraphosidae |