Pycnothele

Pycnothele
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Pycnothelidae
Genus:	Pycnothele; Chamberlin, 1917
Type species
	; Chamberlin, 1917
Species
	10, 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,^[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]

Species[]

As of June 2020 it contains ten species, found in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil:^[1]

Formerly included:

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