N.B.: type species fixed by ICZN, 1957: 116; the senior synonym Mygale Latreille, 1802a: 49 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05124] (type Aranea avicularia Linnaeus, 1758) is preoccupied in Mammalia by Cuvier, 1800 (Thorell, 1870b: 162, 168); the mentionings of Teraphosa [sic] (i.e. Theraphosa Walckenaer, 1805) by Eichwald, 1830: 73 and Gistel, 1848: 156 belong to Avicularia (Breitling, 2021b: 30, 31); considered a senior synonym of Eurypelma C. L. Koch, 1850: 73 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04553] (type Aranea avicularia Linnaeus, 1758, see Petrunkevitch, 1939b and Raven, 1985a: 146, 175) (but not of Plesiopelma Pocock, 1901 or Pterinopelma Pocock, 1901), of Ancylochiros Mello-Leitão, 1920a: 141 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05089] (type A. taunayi Mello-Leitão, 1920) by Raven, 1985a: 149 and of Avicuscodra Strand, 1908b: 771 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05091] (type A. arabica Strand, 1908) by Gallon, 2008: 243 (contra Raven, 1985a: 149); not a senior synonym of Iridopelma Pocock, 1901 (Smith, 1993b: 13, after Raven, 1985a: 119).

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