{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = | image = | image_caption = | image2 = | image2_caption = | taxon = Pycnothele | authority = Chamberlin, 1917<ref name=wsc /> | type_species = ''P. perdita'' | type_species_authority = Chamberlin, 1917 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 12, see text | synonyms = *''Agersborgia'' <small>Strand, 1936</small><ref name=Luca1973 /> *''Androthelopsis'' <small>Mello-Leitão, 1934</small><ref name=Pere1989 /> *''Pycnothelopsis'' <small>Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1942</small><ref name=Rave1985 /> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=wsc /> }}
'''''Pycnothele''''' is a genus of South American mygalomorph spiders in the family Pycnothelidae. First described by Ralph Vary Chamberlin in 1917,<ref name=Cham1917 /> it was moved to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,<ref name=Rave1985 /> but moved back to Pycnothelidae in 2020.<ref name=Opat2020 /> It is a senior synonym of ''Agersborgia''<ref name=Luca1973 /> and ''Androthelopsis''.<ref name=Pere1989 />
==Species== {{as of|2022|04}} it contains 12 species, found in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil:<ref name=wsc /> *''Pycnothele arapongas'' <small>Passanha, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014</small> – Brazil *''Pycnothele araraquara'' <small>Passanha, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014</small> – Brazil *''Pycnothele auripila'' <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1946)</small> – Uruguay *''Pycnothele auronitens'' <small>(Keyserling, 1891)</small> – Brazil *''Pycnothele gauderio'' <small>Passanha, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014</small> – Brazil *''Pycnothele gigas'' <small>(Vellard, 1925)</small> – Brazil *''Pycnothele jatai'' <small>Passanha, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014</small> – Brazil *''Pycnothele labordai'' <small>(Pérez-Miles, Costa & Montes de Oca, 2014)</small> – Brazil, Uruguay *''Pycnothele modesta'' <small>(Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1942)</small> – Uruguay, Argentina *''Pycnothele perdita'' <small>Chamberlin, 1917</small> (type) – Brazil *''Pycnothele rubra'' <small>Passanha, Indicatti, Brescovit & Lucas, 2014</small> – Brazil *''Pycnothele singularis'' <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1934)</small> – Brazil
'''Formerly included:''' *''P. piracicabensis'' <small>(Piza, 1938)</small> (Transferred to ''Rachias'')
==References== <references> <ref name="wsc">{{cite journal| title=Gen. Pycnothele Chamberlin, 1917| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-07-11| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2030| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}</ref> <ref name="Cham1917">{{cite journal| last=Chamberlin| first=R. V.| year=1917| title=New spiders of the family Aviculariidae| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| pages=25–75| volume=61| author-link=Ralph Vary Chamberlin}}</ref> <ref name="Luca1973">{{cite journal| last1=Lucas| first1=S.| last2=Bücherl| first2=W.| year=1973| title=Revision von Typenmaterial der Vogelspinnensammlung des Institutes Butantan| journal=Zoologischer Anzeiger| volume=190| page=241}}</ref> <ref name="Opat2020">{{cite journal| last=Opatova| first=V.| display-authors=etal| year=2020| title=Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data| journal=Systematic Biology| volume=69| issue=4| pages=701–702| doi=10.1093/sysbio/syz064| pmid=31841157| doi-access=free| url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2019/05/02/531756.full.pdf}}</ref> <ref name="Pere1989">{{cite journal| last1=Pérez-Miles| first1=F.| last2=Capocasale| first2=R. M.| year=1989| title=Revision of the genus ''Pycnothele'' (Araneae, Nemesiidae)| journal=Journal of Arachnology| volume=16| page=288}}</ref> <ref name="Rave1985">{{cite journal| last=Raven| first=R. J.| year=1985| title=The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics| journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| volume=182| pages=79–101}}</ref> </references>
==Further reading== *{{cite journal| last=Passanha| first=V.| display-authors=etal| year=2014| title=Revision of the spider genus ''Pycnothele'' (Araneae, Nemesiidae)| journal=Iheringia, Série Zoologia| pages=228–251| volume=104| issue=2| doi=10.1590/1678-476620141042228251| doi-access=free}} *{{cite journal| last=Bücherl| first=W.| year=1957| title=Sôbre a importância dos bulbos copuladores e das apófises tibiais dos machos na sistemática das aranhas caranguejeiras (Orthognatha)| journal=Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências| pages=377–416| volume=29}}
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Category:Mygalomorphae genera Category:Pycnothelidae Category:Spiders of South America Category:Taxa named by Ralph Vary Chamberlin Category:Taxa described in 1917
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