Biology:Pionothele

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Pionothele
Scientific classification e
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
  • Purcell, 1902 – South Africa Pionothele straminea

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) 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. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Pionothele Purcell, 1902. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2025. Retrieved 2020-07-11. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 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. https://zenodo.org/record/1642179. 
  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. (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

Wikidata ☰ Q10807329 entry