{{Short description|Family of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = | image = Acanthogonatus pissii.jpg | image_caption = ''Acanthogonatus pissii'' | image2 = | image2_caption = | taxon = Pycnothelidae | authority = Chamberlin, 1917 | diversity = 15 genera, 144 species | diversity_ref = <ref name=wsc /> | range_map = Pycnothelidae range map.svg | range_map_caption = <span style="color:blue">blue</span>: reported countries (WSC)<br/><span style="color:green">green</span>: observation hotspots (iNaturalist) }}
'''''Pycnothelidae''''' is a family of mygalomorph spiders first described in 1917.<ref name=Cham1917 /> It was downgraded to a subfamily of the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,<ref name=Rave1985 /> but returned to family status in 2020.<ref name=Opat2020 />
==Distribution== The majority of genera are found in South America, with two genera from East and southern Africa.
==Genera== <gallery mode=packed> Acanthogonatus fg01.jpg|captive ''Acanthognatus francki'' Pycnothele rubra 408741387.jpg|''Pycnothele rubra'' from Brazil Stanwellia 197170630.jpg|''Stanwellia'' sp. from Australia Stenoterommata platensis 332815197.jpg|''S. platensis'' </gallery>
{{as of|2026|1}}, this family includes fifteen genera and 144 species.<ref name="wsc" />
South American genera: {{Div col}} *''Acanthogonatus'' <small>Karsch, 1880</small> – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay *''Chaco'' <small>Tullgren, 1905</small> – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay *''Chilelopsis'' <small>Goloboff, 1995</small> – Chile *''Longistylus'' <small>Indicatti & Lucas, 2005</small> – Brazil *''Lycinus'' <small>Thorell, 1894</small> – Argentina, Brazil, Chile *''Prorachias'' <small>Mello-Leitão, 1924</small> – Brazil *''Psalistopoides'' <small>Mello-Leitão, 1934</small> – Brazil *''Pselligmus'' <small>Simon, 1892</small> – Brazil *''Pycnothele'' <small>Chamberlin, 1917</small> – Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay *''Rachias'' <small>Simon, 1892</small> – Argentina, Brazil *''Stanwellia'' <small>Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918</small> – Australia, New Zealand *''Stenoterommata'' <small>Holmberg, 1881</small> – Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay *''Xenonemesia'' <small>Goloboff, 1989</small> – Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay {{div col end}}
African genera: {{Div col}} *''Afromygale'' <small>Zonstein, 2020</small> – Kenya, Tanzania *''Pionothele'' <small>Purcell, 1902</small> – South Africa, Namibia {{div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:000138 | title=Family Pycnothelidae Chamberlin, 1917 | publisher=World Spider Catalog | doi=10.24436/2 | accessdate=2026-01-22}}</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| volume=61| pages=25–75| author-link=Ralph Vary Chamberlin}}</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}}</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| page=86| author-link=Robert Raven}}</ref> }}
==External links== * {{inaturalist taxon}}
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Category:Pycnothelidae Category:Mygalomorphae families Category:Taxa named by Ralph Vary Chamberlin Category:Taxa described in 1917
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