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. Ornithoctonus Pocock, 1892 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00257

type Ornithoctonus andersoni Pocock, 1892; gender masculine

Transferred to other genera:

Ornithoctonus gadgili Tikader, 1977 -- see Poecilotheria

Ornithoctonus hainanus (Liang, Peng, Huang & Chen, 1999) -- see Melopoeus

Ornithoctonus huwenus (Wang, Peng & Xie, 1993) -- see Melopoeus

Ornithoctonus andersoni Pocock, 1892 | | Myanmar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002253 TYPE SPECIES

Ornithoctonus andersoni Pocock, 1892b: 317, pl. 22, f. 1-3 (Df) Original description

Ornithoctonus andersoni Pocock, 1900a: 206, f. 63-64 (f)

Ornithoctonus andersoni von Wirth, 1991a: 7, f. 3 (f)

Ornithoctonus andersoni Schmidt, 1993d: 124, f. 396 (f)

Ornithoctonus andersoni Schmidt, 2003l: 252, f. 831 (f)

Ornithoctonus andersoni von Wirth & Striffler, 2005: 8, f. 2-7 (f)

Ornithoctonus andersoni Schmidt, 2015b: 27, f. 4 (f)

Ornithoctonus aureotibialis von Wirth & Striffler, 2005 | | Thailand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040978

Haplopelma chrysothrix Schmidt & Samm, 2005: 5, f. 1-8 (mf, nomen nudum as no type depository was cited)

Ornithoctonus aureotibialis von Wirth & Striffler, 2005: 10, f. 8-18 (Dmf for same taxon) Original description

Haplopelma chrysothrix Peters, 2005b: 71, f. 229-234 (mf)

Haplopelma chrysothrix Schmidt & Samm, in Schmidt, 2005g: 43, f. 1-8 (Dmf)

Ornithoctonus aureotibialis Hauke, 2017: 13, f. 8a, 12c-d, 13a-b, 39a,c (f [no genitalia])

Ornithoctonus costalis (Schmidt, 1998) | | Thailand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002047

Haplopelma costale Schmidt, 1998a: 2, f. 1, 3-4 (Df) Original description

Haplopelma costale Schmidt, 2003l: 248, f. 803-804 (f)

Ornithoctonus costalis von Wirth & Striffler, 2005: 8 (Tf from Haplopelma)

Ornithoctonus costalis Schmidt, 2015b: 25, f. 1 (f)