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.