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

Pycnothele modesta (Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1942)

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Described:

Distribution: Uruguay, Argentina

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Holotype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina m (756) - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)

Taxonomic References

Pycnothelopsis modestus Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1942: 320, f. 4-6 (Dm) Original description

Pycnothelopsis modesta Bücherl, 1957: 405, f. 95-95a (m)

Pycnothelopsis modestus Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1967b: 59, f. 9-13 (m)

Pycnothelopsis modestus Pérez-Miles & Capocasale, 1982: 6, pl. 2, f. 1 (m)

Androthelopsis modestus Raven, 1985a: 101, f. 113-119 (m)

Pycnothele modesta Goloboff, 1995: 130, f. 17, 53, 114A-D, 115A-I (removed m from S of P. singularis, contra Pérez-Miles & Capocasale, 1989: 291, Df)

Pycnothele modesta Montes de Oca & Pérez-Miles, 2009: 46, f. 36-37 (mf)

Pycnothele modesta Passanha et al., 2014: 245, f. 72-78 (mf)

References

Bücherl, W. (1957). Sôbre a importância dos bulbos copuladores e das apófises tibiais dos machos na sistemática das aranhas caranguejeiras (Orthognatha). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 29: 377-416. -- 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

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. (1982). Arañas del Uruguay, IV. Hallazgo de una tercera especie del genero Pycnothelopsis: Pycnothelopsis tacuariensis sp. nov. (Araneae, Pycnothelidae). Comunicaciones Zoologicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo 147: 1-7. -- 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

Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman, B. S. (1942). Arañas argentinas (Ia parte). Anales del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 40: 317-332. -- Show included taxa

Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman de P., B. S. (1967b). La familia Pycnothelidae (Chamberlin, 1917) (Araneae-Mygalomorphae). Segunda Jornada Entomoepidemiológica Argentina 1(1965): 45-64. -- 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
2014-09-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Passanha et al., 2014