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. Antillena Bertani, Huff & Fukushima, 2017 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04381
Antillena rickwesti (Bertani & Huff, 2013) | | Dominican Rep. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:046225
Avicularia rickwesti Bertani & Huff, 2013: 333, f. 2-14 (Df) Original description
Avicularia rickwesti Kaderka, 2016b: 122, f. 2-11 (Dm)
Antillena rickwesti Fukushima & Bertani, 2017: 153, f. 284-294 (mf, T from Avicularia)

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