World Spider Catalog

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. Encyocrates Simon, 1892 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00217

N.B.: not a senior synonym of Batesiella Pocock, 1903 (Smith, 1990c: 23, contra Raven, 1985a: 150).

Transferred to other genera:

Encyocrates crinita (Pocock, 1903) -- see Batesiella

Encyocrates raffrayi Simon, 1892 | | Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001992

Encyocrates raffrayi Simon, 1892d: 280 (Df) Original description

Encyocrates raffrayi Berland, 1917: 477, f. 11-12 (Dm)

Encyocrates raffrayi Fage, 1922a: 367, f. 5

Encyocrates raffrayi Smith, 1986b: 31, f. 4h (m)

Encyocrates raffrayi Smith, 1987d: 31, f. 4h (m)

Encyocrates raffrayi Smith, 1990c: 26, f. 38-50 (m)

Encyocrates raffrayi Schmidt, 1993d: 109, f. 337 (m)

Encyocrates raffrayi Schmidt, 2003l: 210, f. 622-623 (m)