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. Vitriembolus Peñaherrera-R., Ríos-Tamayo, Sherwood, Gabriel, Guerrero-Campoverde, León-E., Mora-Bolaños & Cisneros-Heredia, 2025 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06428
type Vitriembolus diaguita Ríos-Tamayo, Peñaherrera-R., Sherwood, Guerrero-Campoverde, León-E., Mora-Bolaños, Gabriel & Cisneros-Heredia, 2025; gender masculine

N.B.: originally spelled Vitriemboli, emended here to Vitriembolus, because it must be a noun in nominative singular (according to ICZN article 11.8), emboli would be genitive case or plural.

Vitriembolus diaguita Ríos-Tamayo, Peñaherrera-R., Sherwood, Guerrero-Campoverde, León-E., Mora-Bolaños, Gabriel & Cisneros-Heredia, 2025 | | Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066323 TYPE SPECIES
Vitriemboli diaguita Ríos-Tamayo, Peñaherrera-R., Sherwood, Guerrero-Campoverde, León-E., Mora-Bolaños, Gabriel & Cisneros-Heredia in Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025b: 470, f. 12A-F, 13A-E (Dm) Original description
Vitriembolus herzogi (Gabriel, Sherwood & Pérez-Miles, 2023) | | Bolivia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059364
Reversopelma herzogi Gabriel, Sherwood & Pérez-Miles, 2023: 949, f. 26-33 (Dm) Original description
Vitriemboli herzogi Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025b: 471 (T from Reversopelma)

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