Family: Pycnothelidae Chamberlin, 1917 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0141]
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N.B.: downgraded to a subfamily of Nemesiidae by Raven, 1985a: 79 and revalidated by Opatova et al., 2020: 701; redefined and transfer of 12 genera from Nemesiidae by Montes de Oca et al., 2022: 11; furthermore Montes de Oca et al., 2022: 14 define five subfamilies: Pycnothelinae, Diplothelopsinae Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1967, Pionothelinae Indicatti, Montes de Oca, Opatova, Almeida, Pérez-Miles & Bond, 2022 (new subfamily), Prorachiinae Indicatti, Montes de Oca, Opatova, Almeida, Pérez-Miles, Bond, 2022 (new subfamily) and Pselligminae Mello-Leitão, 1923 (elevated from tribe).
Status: accepted
Last updated: 2023-11-27
Described in
Chamberlin, 1917: 25
Counts
Number of valid genera: 15
Number of valid species: 139
Reference

Chamberlin, R. V. (1917). New spiders of the family Aviculariidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 61: 25-75. download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2020-06-18 New family inserted Chamberlin, 1917 n/a