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. Heteroscodra Pocock, 1900 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00234

Transferred to other genera:

Heteroscodra pachypoda (Strand, 1908) -- see Stromatopelma

In synonymy:

Heteroscodra crassipes latithorax Strand, 1920 = Heteroscodra crassipes Hirst, 1907 (Nentwig et al., 2019: 45)

Heteroscodra crassipes Hirst, 1907 | | Cameroon, Gabon, Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002092

Heteroscodra crassipes Hirst, 1907b: 36, f. 3 (Df) Original description

Heteroscodra crassipes Berland, 1917: 476, f. 10 (Dm)

Heteroscodra latithorax Strand, 1920: 107 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002093]

Heteroscodra crassipes latithorax Laurent, 1943: 7 (reduced to subspecies)

Heterscodra crassipes Smith, 1986b: 23, f. 19h (m)

Heterscodra crassipes Smith, 1987d: 23, f. 19h (m)

Heterscodra crassipes Smith, 1990c: 30, f. 81-91 (m)

Heteroscodra crassipes Schmidt, 1993d: 114, f. 351 (m)

Heteroscodra crassipes Schmidt, 2003l: 217, f. 663 (m)

Heteroscodra crassipes Nentwig et al., 2019: 45 (S of Heteroscodra crassipes latithorax)

Heteroscodra maculata Pocock, 1900 | | West, Central Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002094

Heteroscodra maculata Pocock, 1900g: 840 (Df) Original description

Heteroscodra maculata Strand, 1907l: 36 (Df)

Heterscodra maculata Charpentier, 1992a: 11, f. 1-1b, 2-2g (f, Dm)

Heteroscodra maculata Peters, 2000b: 24, f. 45 (f)