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. Miaschistopus Pocock, 1897 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04341

N.B.: removed from synonymy with Lasiodora by Gabriel, 2016: 87.

Miaschistopus tetricus (Simon, 1889) | | Venezuela urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002214

Crypsidromus tetricus Simon, 1889m: 212 (Dm) Original description

Miaschistopus rapidus Pocock, 1897b: 770, pl. 41, f. 5 (Dm)

Metriopelma tetricum Pocock, 1903b: 114

Crypsidromus tetricus Strand, 1916b: 86

Crypsidromus tetricus Smith, 1987d: 93, f. 78h (m)

Miaschistopus tetricus Gabriel, 2016: 87 (T from Lasiodora)

Miaschistopus rapidus Gabriel, 2016: 90, f. 76 (m)

Miaschistopus tetricus Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020a: 313, f. 42-45 (m)