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Genus: Pycnothele Chamberlin, 1917 | Family: Pycnothelidae Chamberlin, 1917

Pycnothele gigas Vellard, 1925

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001242

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

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Holotype: Instituto Butantan, São Paulo (IBSP), Brazil m (104, lost) - (Lucas et al., 2008)
Neotype: Instituto Butantan, São Paulo (IBSP), Brazil m (13509) - (Lucas et al., 2008)

Taxonomic References

Neostothis gigas Vellard, 1925: 79, 82, pl. 15 (Dmf) Original description

Neostothis gigas Goloboff, 1995: 168 (Tmf from Chaco)

Neostothis gigas Lucas et al., 2008: 472, f. 1a-d, 2a-f (mf)

Pycnothele gigas Montes de Oca et al., 2022: 13 (T from Neostothis)

References

Goloboff, P. A. (1995). A revision of the South American spiders of the family Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). Part I: species from Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 224: 1-189. -- Show included taxa

Lucas, S. M., Passanha, V., Janini, C. R. V. & Indicatti, R. P. (2008). On the genus Neostothis Vellard (Araneae, Nemesiidae). Journal of Arachnology 36: 472-475. -- Show included taxa

Montes de Oca, L., Indicatti, R. P., Opatova, V., Almeida, M., Pérez-Miles, F. & Bond, J. E. (2022). Phylogenomic analysis, reclassification, and evolution of South American nemesioid burrowing mygalomorph spiders. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 168(107377): 1-19. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107377 -- Show included taxa

Vellard, J. (1925). Um novo genero e duas especies novas de aranha do estado de S.-Paulo. Memórias do Instituto Butantan 2: 78-84. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2022-01-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Montes de Oca et al., 2022
2022-01-12	Species transferred to new genus	Montes de Oca et al., 2022		Species transferred from Neostothis to Pycnothele