Pycnothele

Pycnothele
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Pycnothelidae
Genus: Pycnothele
Chamberlin, 1917
Type species
P. perdita
Chamberlin, 1917
Species

12, see text

Synonyms
  • Agersborgia Strand, 1936
  • Androthelopsis Mello-Leitão, 1934
  • Pycnothelopsis Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1942

Pycnothele is a genus of South American mygalomorph spiders in the family Pycnothelidae. First described by Ralph Vary Chamberlin in 1917, it was moved to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, but moved back to Pycnothelidae in 2020. It is a senior synonym of Agersborgia and Androthelopsis.