Pycnothele

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]

Pycnothele
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Pycnothelidae
Genus:	Pycnothele Chamberlin, 1917[1]
Type species
P. perdita Chamberlin, 1917
Species
12, see text
Synonyms[1]
Agersborgia Strand, 1936[2] Androthelopsis Mello-Leitão, 1934[3] Pycnothelopsis Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1942[4]

Species

As of April 2022^[update] it contains 12 species, found in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil:^[1]

• Pycnothele arapongas Passanha, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014 – Brazil
• Pycnothele araraquara Passanha, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014 – Brazil
• Pycnothele auripila (Mello-Leitão, 1946) – Uruguay
• Pycnothele auronitens (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
• Pycnothele gauderio Passanha, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014 – Brazil
• Pycnothele gigas (Vellard, 1925) – Brazil
• Pycnothele jatai Passanha, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014 – Brazil
• Pycnothele labordai (Pérez-Miles, Costa & Montes de Oca, 2014) – Brazil, Uruguay
• Pycnothele modesta (Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1942) – Uruguay, Argentina
• Pycnothele perdita Chamberlin, 1917 (type) – Brazil
• Pycnothele rubra Passanha, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014 – Brazil
• Pycnothele singularis (Mello-Leitão, 1934) – Brazil

Formerly included:

• P. piracicabensis (Piza, 1938) (Transferred to Rachias)

See also

• List of Pycnothelidae species