Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Family |   ACCEPTED
N.B.: for the year of description (1869 vs. 1870) see Sherwood et al., 2021: 396, Breitling, 2021b published a different opinion; Raven, 1994: 333 considered the Trichopelmatinae (genera Trichopelma and Psalistops) to belong to the Theraphosidae rather than to Barychelidae, but has not provided a phylogenetic argument for this change; Trichopelma was finally transferred to the Theraphosidae (Guadanucci, 2014: 514) as well as Psalistops (Mori & Bertani, 2020: 37), so in fact Trichopelmatinae is now transferred to Theraphosidae; the monophyly of Theraphosidae and of the most recognized theraphosid subfamilies was confirmed by Lüddecke et al., 2018 and by Foley et al., 2019.
Gen. Melloleitaoina Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1960 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00249
N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Dryptopelma Simon, 1889 by Pérez-Miles et al., 1996: 53.

Transferred to other genera:

Melloleitaoina crassifemur Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1960 -- see Tmesiphantes

Melloleitaoina mutquina Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2014 -- see Tmesiphantes

Melloleitaoina uru Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2014 -- see Tmesiphantes

Melloleitaoina yupanqui Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2014 -- see Tmesiphantes


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