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THERAPHOSINAE Thorell, 1870

The valid genera of the Subfamily THERAPHOSINAE :

 

ACANTHOSCURRIA Ausserer, 1871

AENIGMARACHNE Schmidt, 2005

AGNOSTOPELMA Pérez-Miles & Weinmann, 2010

AMI Pérez-Miles, 2008

APACHEPELMA Smith, 1995

APHONOPELMA Pocock, 1901

BONNETINA Vol, 2000

BRACHYPELMA Simon, 1891

CARDIOPELMA Vol, 1999 nomen nudum

CHROMATOPELMA Schmidt, 1995

CITHARACANTHUS Pocock, 1901

CLAVOPELMA Chamberlin, 1940

CRASSICRUS Reichling & West, 1996

CUBANANA Ortiz, 2008

CYCLOSTERNUM Ausserer, 1871

CYRIOCOSMUS Simon, 1903

CYRTHOPHOLIS Simon, 1892

DAVUS Cambridge, 1892

EUATHLUS Ausserer, 1875 (see notes)

EUPALAESTRUS Pocock, 1901

GRAMMOSTOLA Simon, 1892 (see notes)

HAPALOPUS Ausserer, 1875

HAPALOTREMUS Simon, 1903

HEMIRRHAGUS Simon, 1903 

HOMOEOMMA Ausserer, 1871

KOCHIANA Fukushima, Nagahama & Bertani, 2008

LASIODORA C. L: Koch, 1850

LASIODORIDES Schmidt & Bischoff, 1997

MAGULLA Simon, 1892 (restored in 2007 by Indicatti, Lucas, Guadanucci & Yamamoto)

MARACA Perez-Miles, 2000 ( Iracema Pérez-Miles, 2000 is junior generic homonym with Iracema Triques, 1996 (Pisces) )

MEGAPHOBEMA Pocock, 1901

MELLOLEITAOINA Gerschman de Pikelin & Schiapelli, 1960

METRIOPELMA Becker, 1878

NEISCHNOCOLUS Petrunkevitch, 1925 (based only on female characters)

NEOSTENOTARSUS Pribik & Weinmann, 2004 (replacement name for STENOTARSUS Tesmoingt & Schmidt, 2002)

NESIPELMA Schmidt & Kovařík, 1996

NHANDU Lucas, 1981

OZOPACTUS Simon, 1889

PAMPHOBETEUS Pocock, 1901

PARAPHYSA Simon, 1892

PHORMICTOPUS Pocock, 1901

PHRIXOTRICHUS Simon, 1889 (see notes)

PLESIOPELMA Pocock, 1901

PROSHAPALOPUS Mello-Leitao, 1923

PSEUDHAPALOPUS Strand, 1907 (considered as junior synonymy of Paraphysa by Raven, 1985 (the type lost, not examined) but that synonymy was rejected by Schmidt & Weinmann, 1997. Both the synonymization and the restoration are doubtful because the type was not examined)

REVERSOPELMA Schmidt, 2001

SCHIZOPELMA Cambridge, 1897

SCOPELOBATES Simon, 1903 (¨the restoration in the unpublished thesis of J. P. L. Guadanucci, 2007) 

SERICOPELMA Ausserer, 1875

SPHAEROBOTHRIA Karsch, 1879

STICHOPLASTORIS Rudloff, 1997

THERAPHOSA Thorell, 1870 (Pseudotheraphosa Tinter, 1991 is junior synonymy of Theraphosa, synonymized by Bertani, 2001)

THRIXOPELMA Schmidt, 1994

TMESIPHANTES Simon, 1892

VITALIUS Lucas, Silva Junior & Bertani, 1993

XENESTHIS Simon, 1891

 

Notes :

PACHYPELMA Karsch, 1880, nomen dubium is not listed.

 

Despite of the antagonostic conclusions of Schmidt, 1996 and Pérez-Miles et al., 1996 I have listed all three taxonomically controversial genera of EUATHLUS Ausserer, 1875, GRAMMOSTOLA Simon, 1892 and PHRIXOTRICHUS Simon, 1889.

 

Schmidt, 1996: EUATHLUS Ausserer, 1875 (PHRIXOTRICHUS Simon, 1889 is junior synonymy of EUATHLUS), GRAMMOSTOLA Simon, 1892

Pérez-Miles et al., 1996: EUATHLUS Ausserer, 1875, PHRIXOTRICHUS Simon, 1889 (GRAMMOSTOLA Simon, 1892 is junior synonymy of PHRIXOTRICHUS)

 

The Subfamily SPELOPELMINAE Smith, 1994 was synonymized with THERAPHOSINAE and the genus SPELOPELMA Gertsch, 1982 with HEMIRRHAGUS Simon, 1903 by Pérez-Miles & Locht, 2003.

 

 

GENERIC KEY of THERAPHOSINAE Subfamily

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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