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. Tekoapora Galleti-Lima, Hamilton, Borges & Guadanucci, 2023 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06040

In synonymy:

Tekoapora insularis (Mello-Leitão, 1923) = Tekoapora wacketi Mello-Leitão, 1923 (Bertani, 2001: 294, contra Bücherl, 1949a: 126, sub Pamphobeteus platyomma)

Tekoapora litoralis (Piza, 1976) = Tekoapora wacketi Mello-Leitão, 1923 (Bertani, 2001: 294, contra Lucas, Silva & Bertani, 1993: 245, sub Vitalius platyomma)

Tekoapora masculus (Piza, 1939) = Tekoapora wacketi Mello-Leitão, 1923 (Bertani, 2001: 294, contra Bücherl, 1949a: 126, sub Pamphobeteus platyomma)

Tekoapora wacketi (Mello-Leitão, 1923) | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001781

Pterinopelma wacketi Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 185, f. 114-115 (Dm) Original description

Pamphobeteus insularis Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 241 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058347]

Pamphobeteus masculus Piza, 1939a: 6, f. 4-6 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058349]

Pamphobeteus platyomma Bücherl, 1949a: 126, pl. II (m, misidentified)

Pamphobeteus platyomma Bücherl, 1957: 403, f. 86 (m, misidentified)

Pterinopelma wacketi Bücherl, Timotheo & Lucas, 1971: 129 (T from Eurypelma = Avicularia, erroneous S of P. dubius and P. vellutinus)

Pamphobeteus litoralis Piza, 1976b: 56 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058348]

Pamphobeteus platyomma Schmidt, 1986: 59, f. 96 (m, misidentified)

Vitalius platyomma Schmidt, 1993d: 100, f. 307 (m, misidentified)

Aphonopelma wacketi Schmidt, 1997g: 19, f. 176, 183 (m)

Vitalius platyomma Schmidt, 1997g: 20, f. 229 (m, misidentified)

Vitalius platyomma Schmidt, 1998d: 5, f. 3 (f, misidentified)

Vitalius platyomma Peters, 2000b: 132, f. 388-389 (mf, misidentified)

Vitalius wacketi Bertani, 2001: 294, f. 16, 83-86, 179-180 (mf, T from Aphonopelma, S of Pamphobeteus insularis, P. litoralis and P. masculus)

Vitalius wacketi Peters, 2003: 312, f. 1250-1252, 1258-1260 (mf)

Vitalius wacketi Schmidt, 2003l: 195, f. 555-557 (mf)

Vitalius "platyomma" Schmidt, 2003l: 195-196, f. 545-546 (m [after Bücherl, 1957: 403, f. 86], f [after Schmidt, 1998d: 5, f. 3], misidentified)

Tekoapora wacketi Galleti-Lima et al., 2023: 7, f. 7A-E (mf, T from Vitalius)