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. Metriopelma Becker, 1878 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00250

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Crypsidromus Ausserer, 1871 by Pérez-Miles et al., 1996: 53; genus redefined by Gabriel, 2016: 73.

Transferred to other genera:

Metriopelma coloratum Valerio, 1982 -- see Hapalopus

Metriopelma drymusetes Valerio, 1982 -- see Davus

Metriopelma familiare (Simon, 1889) -- see Cyclosternum

Metriopelma ledezmae Vol, 2001 -- see Cyclosternum

Metriopelma nigriventre (Mello-Leitão, 1939) -- see Hapalopus

Metriopelma spinulosum F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897 -- see Acentropelma

Metriopelma variegata (Caporiacco, 1955) -- see Hapalopus

Metriopelma velox Pocock, 1903 -- see Cymbiapophysa

Metriopelma zebratum Banks, 1909 -- see Davus

Metriopelma breyeri (Becker, 1878) | | Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002233

Sericopelma breyerii Becker, 1878a: 77, pl. 2, f. 1-6 (Dm) Original description

Metriopelma breyeri Becker, 1878b: 256

Crypsidromus breyeri Simon, 1892a: 143

Crypsidromus breyeri Smith, 1995: 181, f. 1002-1010 (m)

Metriopelma breyeri Schmidt, 2003l: 177, f. 430 (m)

Metriopelma breyeri Gabriel, 2016: 73, f. 52-55 (m)