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Open-holed Trapdoor Spiders
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Open-holed Trapdoor Spiders

Pycnothelidae

Pycnothelidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders first described in 1917. It was downgraded to a subfamily of the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, but returned to family status in 2020.

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7 branches of this family, most-observed first

Diplothelopsinae

subfamilyDiplothelopsinae

Pselligminae

subfamilyPselligminae

Pionothelinae

subfamilyPionothelinae

Pycnothelinae

subfamilyPycnothelinae

Longistylus

genusLongistylus

Afromygale

genusAfromygale

Prorachiinae

subfamilyProrachiinae

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