''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''
Karsch, 1880 – South America
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Bayana
Bayana is a historical town and the headquarters of Bayana tehsil in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan in India. Hindaun City is nearest city of Bayana - 33 km. It was the site of famous Important Battle of Bayana in 1527 between the Rajput ...
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Pérez-Miles, Costa & Montes de Oca, 2014
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Pionothele
''Pionothele'' is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders in the family Pycnothelidae. It was first described by William Frederick Purcell in 1902. it contains 2 species, found in Namibia and South Africa: '' P. gobabeb'', and '' P. straminea''. ...
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Purcell, 1902 – South Africa, Namibia
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Pycnothele''
Chamberlin, 1917 – Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina
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Stanwellia''
Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 – Australia, New Zealand
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Stenoterommata''
Holmberg, 1881 – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
References
Mygalomorphae families
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