Pionothele Explained

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

See also

• List of Pycnothelidae species

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. 31–42. 46.
• Bond. J. E.. Lamb. T.. 2019. A new species of Pionothele from Gobabeb, Namibia (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Nemesiidae). ZooKeys. 17–25. 851. 10.3897/zookeys.851.31802. 31205441. 6557906. free. 2019ZooK..851...17B.
• Tucker. R. W. E.. 1917. On some South African Aviculariidae (Arachnida). Families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Diplotheleae and Dipluridae. Annals of the South African Museum. 79–138. 17.

Notes and References

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. 348–382. 11. 10.1080/21560382.1900.9525972. William Frederick Purcell.
2. Gen. Pionothele Purcell, 1902. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-11. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
3. Raven. R. J.. 1985. The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182. 93. Robert Raven.
4. Opatova. V.. etal. 2020. Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data. Systematic Biology. 69. 4. 701–702. 10.1093/sysbio/syz064. 31841157. free.