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. Sphaerobothria Karsch, 1879 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00283

type Sphaerobothria hoffmanni Karsch, 1879; gender feminine

Transferred to other genera:

Sphaerobothria gibbosa (Franganillo, 1936) -- see Cyrtopholis

Sphaerobothria hoffmanni Karsch, 1879 | | Costa Rica, Panama urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002465 TYPE SPECIES

Sphaerobothria hoffmannii Karsch, 1879d: 536, pl. 7, f. 1-2 (Df) Original description

Sphaerobothria hoffmanni Karsch, 1884b: 70 (Dm)

Sphaerobothria hoffmanni O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892b: 89, pl. 12, f. 1-2 (mf)

Sphaerobothria hoffmanni F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897a: 17, pl. 1, f. 12 (m)

Sphaerobothria hoffmanni Valerio, 1980b: 273, f. 2-3, 19 (mf)

Sphaerobothria hoffmanni Smith, 1986b: 68, f. 112h (m)

Sphaerobothria hoffmanni Smith, 1987d: 68, f. 112h (m)

Sphaerobothria hoffmanni Schmidt, 1993d: 98, f. 294 (f)

Sphaerobothria hoffmanni Schmidt, 1997g: 19, f. 168 (f)

Sphaerobothria hoffmanni Bertani, 2000: 30, f. 23-24 (m)

Sphaerobothria hoffmanni Peters, 2000b: 114, f. 336-337 (mf)

Sphaerobothria hoffmanni Bertani, 2001: 323, f. 32-33 (m)

Sphaerobothria hoffmanni Peters, 2003: 290, f. 1150-1151 (mf)

Sphaerobothria hoffmanni Schmidt, 2003l: 135, f. 187-188 (mf)