''Pycnothelidae'' is a family of
mygalomorph
The Mygalomorphae, or mygalomorphs, are an infraorder of spiders, and comprise one of three major groups of living spiders with over 3000 species, found on all continents except Antarctica. Many members are known as trapdoor spiders due to the ...
spiders first described in 1917.
It was downgraded to a subfamily of the
funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,
but returned to family status in 2020.
Genera
, the
World Spider Catalog
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of ...
accepted the following genera:
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Acanthogonatus
''Acanthogonatus'' is a genus of South American mygalomorph spiders in the family Pycnothelidae. It was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1880. Originally placed with the brushed trapdoor spiders, it was transferred to the fun ...
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Karsch, 1880 – South America
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Bayana
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Pérez-Miles, Costa & Montes de Oca, 2014
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Pionothele''
Purcell, 1902 – South Africa, Namibia
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Pycnothele
''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 ...
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Chamberlin, 1917 – Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina
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Stanwellia''
Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 – Australia, New Zealand
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Stenoterommata
''Stenoterommata'' is a genus of South American araneomorph spiders in the family Pycnothelidae. It was first described by E. L. Holmberg in 1881. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 19 ...
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Holmberg, 1881 – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
References
Mygalomorphae families
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