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. Thrixopelma Schmidt, 1994 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00289

type Thrixopelma ockerti Schmidt, 1994; gender neuter

Transferred to other genera:

Thrixopelma aymara (Chamberlin, 1916) -- see Ewok

Thrixopelma christineae Sherwood & Gabriel, 2024 -- see Ewok

Thrixopelma cyaneolum Schmidt, Friebolin & Friebolin, 2005 -- see Ewok

Thrixopelma eliseanneae Sherwood & Gabriel, 2024 -- see Ewok

Thrixopelma kimraykawsaki Signorotto, Ferretti, Chaparro, Ochoa & West, 2025 -- see Ewok

Thrixopelma lagunas Schmidt & Rudloff, 2010 -- see Warmiru

Thrixopelma longicolli (Schmidt, 2003) -- see Warmiru

Thrixopelma nadineae Sherwood & Gabriel, 2022 -- see Crypticarachne

Thrixopelma peruvianum (Schmidt, 2007) -- see Warmiru

Thrixopelma pruriens Schmidt, 1998 -- see Ewok

Thrixopelma zaratensis Kaderka & Quispe-Colca, 2025 -- see Ewok

Thrixopelma choquequirao Millenpeier, Chaparro, Ochoa, Ferretti & West, 2024 | | Peru urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061661

Thrixopelma choquequirao Millenpeier et al., 2024: 581, f. 1A-D, 2A-H, 3A-E, 5A-B (Dmf) Original description

Thrixopelma michaeli Dupérré & Tapia, 2025 | | Ecuador urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066463

Thrixopelma michaeli Dupérré & Tapia, 2025g: 465, f. 12, 13A-D, 14A-G, 27E (Dm) Original description

Thrixopelma ockerti Schmidt, 1994 | | Peru urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002489 TYPE SPECIES

Thrixopelma ockerti Schmidt, 1994c: 4, f. 1-2 (Df) Original description

Thrixopelma ockerti Schmidt, 1994i: 1, f. 1-3 (Dm)

Thrixopelma ockerti Schmidt, 1997g: 16, f. 66-68 (mf)

Thrixopelma ockerti Peters, 2003: 302, f. 1192, 1195-1196 (mf)

Thrixopelma ockerti Schmidt, 2003l: 126, f. 102-104 (mf)

Thrixopelma ockerti Peters, 2005b: 114, f. 362-366 (mf)

Thrixopelma ockerti Sherwood et al., 2021c: 901, f. 28, 30, 32-34 (f)

Thrixopelma ockerti Signorotto et al., 2025: 109, f. 1A-D, 2A-F, 3A-C (m)

Thrixopelma ockerti Kaderka & Quispe-Colca, 2025: 4, f. 1, 2A-C, 3, 4A-B, 8A-B (f)

Thrixopelma supay Dupérré & Tapia, 2025 | | Ecuador urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066462

Thrixopelma supay Dupérré & Tapia, 2025g: 463, f. 10, 11A-D, 21A-D, 27D (Df) Original description