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. Harpactirella Purcell, 1902 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00231

N.B.: transferred from the Barychelidae to the Theraphosidae by Raven, 1985a: 112 (that transfer was not accepted by Charpentier, 1993: 5, who nevertheless identified no close relatives of the genus among the known barychelids); not a senior synonym of Ashantia Strand, 1908 (Gallon, 2005d: 199, contra Raven, 1985a: 112); not a senior synonym of Luphocemus Denis, 1960 (Korba et al., 2022: 870, by transfer of the type species to Ischnocolus Ausserer, 1871, contra Benoit, 1965c: 297).

Transferred to other genera:

Harpactirella flavipilosa Lawrence, 1936 -- see Pterinochilus

Harpactirella insidiosa (Denis, 1960) -- see Ischnocolus

Harpactirella latithorax (Strand, 1908) -- see Euathlus

Harpactirella leleupi Benoit, 1965 -- see Idiothele

Harpactirella domicola Purcell, 1903 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002070

Harpactirella domicola Purcell, 1903b: 103 (Df) Original description

Harpactirella helenae Purcell, 1903 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002072

Harpactirella helenae Purcell, 1903b: 101 (Dmf) Original description

Harpactirella karrooica Purcell, 1902 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002074

Harpactirella karrooica Purcell, 1902a: 344 (Dmf) Original description

Harpactirella lapidaria Purcell, 1908 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002075

Harpactirella lapidaria Purcell, 1908: 215, pl. 11, f. 3 (Dmf) Original description

Harpactirella lapidaria Smith, 1990c: 90, f. 486 (m)

Harpactirella lightfooti Purcell, 1902 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002078

Harpactirella lightfooti Purcell, 1902a: 346 (Df) Original description

Harpactirella longipes Purcell, 1902 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002079

Harpactirella longipes Purcell, 1902a: 343 (Dmf) Original description

Harpactirella longipes Purcell, 1908: 215, pl. 11, f. 2 (m)

Harpactirella longipes Smith, 1990c: 91, f. 487 (m)

Harpactirella magna Purcell, 1903 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002080

Harpactirella magna Purcell, 1903b: 102 (Df) Original description

Harpactirella overdijki Gallon, 2010 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043397

Harpactirella overdijki Gallon, 2010a: 35, pl. 15-16, f. 14-22 (Dmf) Original description

Harpactirella schwarzi Purcell, 1904 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002081

Harpactirella schwarzi Purcell, 1904: 126 (Df) Original description

Harpactirella spinosa Purcell, 1908 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002082

Harpactirella spinosa Purcell, 1908: 214, pl. 11, f. 1 (Dmf) Original description

Harpactirella spinosa Smith, 1990c: 91, f. 488 (m)

Harpactirella treleaveni Purcell, 1902 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002083

Harpactirella treleaveni Purcell, 1902a: 341 (Dmf) Original description