Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Family |   ACCEPTED
N.B.: for the year of description (1869 vs. 1870) see Sherwood et al., 2021: 396, Breitling, 2021b published a different opinion; Raven, 1994: 333 considered the Trichopelmatinae (genera Trichopelma and Psalistops) to belong to the Theraphosidae rather than to Barychelidae, but has not provided a phylogenetic argument for this change; Trichopelma was finally transferred to the Theraphosidae (Guadanucci, 2014: 514) as well as Psalistops (Mori & Bertani, 2020: 37), so in fact Trichopelmatinae is now transferred to Theraphosidae; the monophyly of Theraphosidae and of the most recognized theraphosid subfamilies was confirmed by Lüddecke et al., 2018 and by Foley et al., 2019.
Gen. Brachionopus Pocock, 1897 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00199
N.B.: transferred from the Barychelidae to the Theraphosidae by Raven, 1985a: 112; Brachyonopus is an unjustified emendation; Raven's transfer was not accepted by Charpentier, 1993: 5 or Schmidt, 2002a: 12 and 2008: 3, who nevertheless identified no close relatives of the genus among the known barychelids; Gallon, 2002: 204 argued for its inclusion in the Barychelidae but indicated that it "does not fit in any current barychelid subfamily" but later (Gallon, 2010b: 79) considered it a harpactirine.

Nomen dubium:

Brachionopus leptopelmiformis Strand, 1907a: 552, Strand, 1907f: 204 (m, South Africa) -- Nentwig et al., 2020: 26

Brachionopus annulatus Purcell, 1903 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001845
Brachionopus annulatus Purcell, 1903b: 105 (Df) Original description
Brachionopus pretoriae Purcell, 1904 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001847
Brachionopus pretoriae Purcell, 1904: 126 (Df) Original description
Brachionopus pretorianus Bonnet, 1955: 905 (invalid emendation)
Brachionopus robustus Pocock, 1897 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001848
Brachionopus robustus Pocock, 1897b: 740, pl. 42, f. 4 (Df) Original description
Brachionopus robustus Hewitt, 1921: 6, f. 2 (Dm)
Brachionopus robustus Smith, 1990c: 66, f. 304-317 (f)
Brachionopus robustus Schmidt, 2002a: 16, f. 1-6 (f)
Brachionopus robustus Schmidt, 2008: 9, f. 1-6 (f)
Brachionopus tristis Purcell, 1903 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001849
Brachionopus tristis Purcell, 1903b: 105 (Df) Original description

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