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.

In synonymy:

Chilocosmia Schmidt & von Wirth, 1992 = Orphnaecus Simon, 1892 (West, Nunn & Hogg, 2012: 23, contra Raven, 2000a: 570)

Selenobrachys Schmidt, 1999 = Orphnaecus Simon, 1892 (West, Nunn & Hogg, 2012: 33)

Gen. Orphnaecus Simon, 1892 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00258

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Chilocosmia Schmidt & von Wirth, 1992b: 9 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04825] (type C. dichromata Schmidt & von Wirth, 1992) (contra Raven, 2000a: 570, who considered it a junior synonym of Selenocosmia instead) and of Selenobrachys Schmidt, 1999b: 2 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00276] (type S. philippinus Schmidt, 1999) by West, Nunn & Hogg, 2012: 23, 33.

Orphnaecus adamsoni Salamanes, Santos, Austria & Villancio, 2022 | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055073

Orphnaecus adamsoni Salamanes et al., 2022: 4284, f. 1A-G, 2A-H (Dmf) Original description

Orphnaecus dichromatus (Schmidt & von Wirth, 1992) | | Indonesia (New Guinea) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001909

Chilocosmia dichromata Schmidt & von Wirth, 1992b: 10, pl. I, f. 1-7 (Df) Original description

Chilocosmia dichromata Schmidt, 1993d: 128, f. 401 (f)

Chilocosmia dichromata Schmidt, 2003l: 237, f. 760 (f)

Selenocosmia dichromata Peters, 2005b: 104, f. 328-331 (f)

Orphnaecus dichromata West, Nunn & Hogg, 2012: 23 (T from Chilocosmia)

Orphnaecus kwebaburdeos (Barrion-Dupo, Barrion & Rasalan, 2015) | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047615

Phlogiellus kwebaburdeos Barrion-Dupo, Barrion & Rasalan, 2015: 4, f. 1A-G, 2A-P (Dmf) Original description

Orphnaecus kwebaburdeos Nunn, West & von Wirth, 2016: 48 (T from Phlogiellus)

Orphnaecus pellitus Simon, 1892 | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002254

Orphnaecus pellitus Simon, 1892c: 36 (Dmf) Original description

Orphnaecus pellitus Simon, 1903a: 956, f. 1106-1107

Orphnaecus pellitus West, Nunn & Hogg, 2012: 25, f. 35a-c (mf)

Orphnaecus philippinus (Schmidt, 1999) | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002404

Selenobrachys philippinus Schmidt, 1999b: 4, f. 1-5 (Df) Original description

Selenobrachys philippinus Schmidt, 2003l: 241, f. 778 (f)

Orphnaecus philippinus West, Nunn & Hogg, 2012: 25, f. 36 (f, T from Selenobrachys)