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. Pseudoschizopelma Smith, 1995 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04175

type Crypsidromus macropus Ausserer, 1875; gender neuter

N.B.: revalidated by Gabriel, Sherwood & Longhorn, 2020: 458, removed from synonymy with Acentropelma Pocock, 1901, contra Gabriel, 2016: 84, who removed it from synonymy with Cyclosternum Ausserer, 1871, contra Pérez-Miles et al., 1996: 46.

In synonymy:

Pseudoschizopelma sorkini (Smith, 1995, T from Acentropelma) = Pseudoschizopelma macropus (Ausserer, 1875) (Gabriel, Sherwood & Longhorn, 2020: 459)

Pseudoschizopelma macropus (Ausserer, 1875) | | Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001940 TYPE SPECIES

Crypsidromus macropus Ausserer, 1875: 179, pl. 6, f. 24-25 (Dmf) Original description

Schizopelma macropus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897a: 29, pl. 1, f. 10 (m)

Pseudoschizopelma macropus Smith, 1995: 187, f. 1034-1040 (Tmf from Schizopelma)

Schizopelma sorkini Smith, 1995: 191, f. 1083-1100 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002403]

Cyclosternum macropus Pérez-Miles et al., 1996: 46, f. 15 (m)

Schizopelma sorkini Vol, 1999a: 13, f. X (f)

Davus macropus Schmidt, 2003l: 162, f. 350-351 (m)

Schizopelma sorkini Schmidt, 2003l: 186, f. 480-482 (mf)

Davus macropus Schmidt, 2005c: 14, f. 2, 9 (m)

Acentropelma macropus Gabriel, 2016: 84, f. 72 (Tm from Cyclosternum)

Acentropelma sorkini Gabriel, 2016: 85, f. 73 (Tm from Schizopelma)

Pseudoschizopelma macropus Gabriel, Sherwood & Longhorn, 2020: 459, f. 13-26 (mf, T from Acentropelma, S of Acentropelma sorkini)