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. Melognathus Chamberlin, 1917 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04555
N.B: considered a junior synonym of Cyriopagopus Simon, 1887 by Raven, 1985a: 156, revalidated by Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019c: 145.
Melognathus dromeus Chamberlin, 1917 | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001959
Melognathus dromeus Chamberlin, 1917: 70, pl. 5, f. 4-7 Original description
Melognathus dromeus Smith, 1986b: 120, f. 21h (m)
Melognathus dromeus Smith, 1987d: 120, f. 21h (m)
Cyriopagopus dromeus Schmidt, 2003l: 249, f. 805-806 (m)
Omothymus dromeus Smith & Jacobi, 2015: 29 (T to Omothymus not followed here - not sufficiently justified)
Melognathus dromeus Gabriel & Sherwood, 2019c: 145 (T from Cyriopagopus)

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