Pionothele

Genus of spiders

Pionothele
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Pycnothelidae
Genus: Pionothele
Purcell, 1902[1]
Type species
P. straminea
Purcell, 1902
Species
  • Pionothele gobabeb Bond & Lamb, 2019 – Namibia
  • Pionothele straminea Purcell, 1902 – South Africa

Pionothele is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders in the family Pycnothelidae. It was first described by William Frederick Purcell in 1902.[2] As of June 2020[update] it contains 2 species, found in Namibia and South Africa: P. gobabeb, and P. straminea.[1] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae,[2] it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,[3] then to the Pycnothelidae in 2020.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Pionothele Purcell, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
  2. ^ a b Purcell, W. F. (1902). "New South African trap-door spiders of the family Ctenizidae in the collection of the South African Museum". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 11: 348–382. doi:10.1080/21560382.1900.9525972.
  3. ^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 93.
  4. ^ Opatova, V.; et al. (2020). "Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data". Systematic Biology. 69 (4): 701–702. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz064. PMID 31841157.

Further reading

  • Zonstein, S. L. (2016). "New data on the spider genus Pionothele (Araneae: Nemesiidae), with description of a new species from South Africa". Israel Journal of Entomology. 46: 31–42.
  • Bond, J. E.; Lamb, T. (2019). "A new species of Pionothele from Gobabeb, Namibia (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Nemesiidae)". ZooKeys (851): 17–25. Bibcode:2019ZooK..851...17B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.851.31802. PMC 6557906. PMID 31205441.
  • Tucker, R. W. E. (1917). "On some South African Aviculariidae (Arachnida). Families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Diplotheleae and Dipluridae". Annals of the South African Museum. 17: 79–138.
Taxon identifiers
Pionothele


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