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

type Orphnaecus pellitus Simon, 1892; gender masculine

N.B.: not a senior synonym of Chilocosmia Schmidt & von Wirth, 1992b: 9 (contra West, Nunn & Hogg, 2012: 23) and not a senior synonym of Selenobrachys Schmidt, 1999b: 2 (contra West, Nunn & Hogg, 2012: 23) per Acuña et al., 2025: 150, 158.

Transferred to other genera:

Orphnaecus dichromatus (Schmidt & von Wirth, 1992) -- see Chilocosmia

Orphnaecus philippinus (Schmidt, 1999) -- see Selenobrachys

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

Orphnaecus adamsoni Salamanes et al., 2022: 4284, f. 1A-G, 2A-H (Dmf; f is misidentified and misplaced in Orphnaecus per Acuña et al., 2025a: 146) Original description

Orphnaecus kwebaburdeos (Barrion-Dupo, Barrion & Rasalan, 2015) | | Philippines (Pilillo Is.) 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 kwebaburdeos Acuña et al., 2025a: 177, f. 18C, 21A-B (f)

Orphnaecus libmanan Acuña & Guevarra, 2025 | | Philippines (Luzon Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065307

Orphnaecus libmanan Acuña & Guevarra in Acuña et al., 2025b: 160, f. 2D-E, 3C, 6A-K, 7A-F, 8A-H (Dmf) Original description

Orphnaecus mimbilisanensis Sumogat, Acuña & Nuñeza, 2025 | | Philippines (Mindanao Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065035

Orphnaecus mimbilisanensis Sumogat, Acuña & Nuñeza, 2025: 12, f. 2A-C, 3A-F, 4A-F, 5A-E, 6A, 7A-F, 8A-F, 9A-B (Dmf) Original description

Orphnaecus pellitus Simon, 1892 | | Philippines (Luzon Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002254 TYPE SPECIES

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 pellitus Acuña et al., 2025a: 173, f. 11A, E, 18D, 20G (mf)

Orphnaecus tangcongvaca Acuña & Guevarra, 2025 | | Philippines (Luzon Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065308

Orphnaecus tangcongvaca Acuña & Guevarra in Acuña et al., 2025b: 167, f. 2C, 3D, 9A-C, 10A-J (Df) Original description