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

Pycnothele auronitens (Keyserling, 1891)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001248

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Uruguay

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Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m - (Raven, 1985a)

Taxonomic References

Trechona auronitens Keyserling, 1891: 18, pl. 1, f. 3 (Dm) Original description

Crypsidromus auronitens Simon, 1903a: 931

Metriopelma auronitens Pocock, 1903b: 114

Pycnothele auronitens Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1970c: 100, f. 1-4 (Tm from Crypsidromus)

Pycnothelopsis auronitens Pérez-Miles & Capocasale, 1983: 2 (Tm from Pycnothele, rejected by Raven, 1985, S)

Pycnothele auronitens Raven, 1985a: 100 (Tm from Pycnothelopsis)

Pycnothele auronitens Pérez-Miles & Capocasale, 1989: 289, f. 1-2, 7, 10, 13, 16 (m, S)

Pycnothele auronitens Goloboff, 1995: 133, f. 116B (m; not Df=P. auripila, per Passanha et al., 2014: 245)

Pycnothele auronitens Montes de Oca & Pérez-Miles, 2009: 46, f. 34-35 (mf)

Pycnothele auronitens Passanha et al., 2014: 242, f. 47-51, 69-70 (m, Df)

References

Gerschman de P., B. S. & Schiapelli, R. D. (1970c). Posición sistemática de Metriopelma auronitens (Keys. 1891) (Araneae: Mygalomorphae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 32: 99-102. -- Show included taxa

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

Keyserling, E. (1891). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Brasilianische Spinnen. Dritter Band. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 278 pp, 10 pls. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa

Montes de Oca, L. & Pérez-Miles, F. (2009). Las arañas Mygalomorphae del Uruguay: clave para familias, géneros y especies. Revistas del Laboratorio Tecnológico del Uruguay 4: 41-49. -- Show included taxa

Passanha, V., Indicatti, R. P., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2014). Revision of the spider genus Pycnothele (Araneae, Nemesiidae). Iheringia, Série Zoologia 104(2): 228-251. doi: 10.1590/1678-476620141042228251 -- Show included taxa

Pérez-Miles, F. & Capocasale, R. M. (1983). Arañas del Uruguay, VI. Las especies del genero Pycnothele. Pycnothelopsis auronitens (Keyserling, 1891) comb. nov. (Araneae, Pycnothelidae). Aracnologia 1: 1-4. -- Show included taxa

Pérez-Miles, F. & Capocasale, R. M. (1989). Revision of the genus Pycnothele (Araneae, Nemesiidae). Journal of Arachnology 16(3, 1988): 281-293. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1903b). On some genera and species of South-American Aviculariidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 11(61): 81-115. doi: 10.1080/00222930308678729 -- Show included taxa

Raven, R. J. (1985a). The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 1-180. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1903a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 669-1080. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-08-19	New taxonomic reference entry	Montes de Oca & Pérez-Miles, 2009
2025-08-19	Species distribution update	Montes de Oca & Pérez-Miles, 2009	Old value
2014-09-10	Species distribution update	Passanha et al., 2014	Old value
2014-09-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Passanha et al., 2014
2014-09-10	Taxonomic reference update	Passanha et al., 2014	Old value
2014-09-10	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon	Passanha et al., 2014		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Pycnothele auripila (Mello-Leitão, 1946)
2014-09-10	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon	Passanha et al., 2014		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Pycnothele auripila (Mello-Leitão, 1946)
2014-09-10	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon	Passanha et al., 2014		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Pycnothele auripila (Mello-Leitão, 1946)
2014-09-10	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon	Passanha et al., 2014		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Pycnothele auripila (Mello-Leitão, 1946)
2014-09-10	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon	Passanha et al., 2014		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Pycnothele auripila (Mello-Leitão, 1946)
2014-09-10	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon	Passanha et al., 2014		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Pycnothele auripila (Mello-Leitão, 1946)