Aviculariinae Simon, 1889

Fukushima, Caroline Sayuri & Bertani, Rogerio, 2017, Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of Avicularia Lamarck, 1818 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae) with description of three new aviculariine genera 01, ZooKeys 659, pp. 1-185 : 20

Subfamily Aviculariinae Simon, 1889

Aviculariae Simon, 1889: 213; 1891: 312.

Avicularieae Simon, 1892: 170; 1903: 918; Pocock 1895: 229; 1901: 547.

Aviculariieae Simon, 1903: 958.

Aviculariinae Petrunkevitch, 1928: 34, 81; 1929: 48; 1939: 152, 274; Schiapelli & Gerschman de Pikelin 1945: 209; Bonnet 1955: 833; Bücherl 1957: 380; Raven 1985: 119; West et al. 2008: 37, 53, 55, 56; Bertani 2012: 5, 73.

Avicularias Mello-Leitão, 1923: 314.

Diagnosis.

Aviculariines can be distinguished by the conjunction of the following characters: legs aspinose or with few apical spines on ventral tibiae and metatarsi; metatarsi and tarsi with scopulae very extended laterally, mainly on anterior legs, giving a spatulate appearance (Figs 299-301); two completely separated spermathecae (Fig. 21); absence of spiniform setae on lower prolateral maxillae.

Included genera: Antillena gen. n., Avicularia Lamarck, 1818, Caribena gen. n., Ephebopus Simon, 1892, Heteroscodra Pocock, 1899, Iridopelma Pocock, 1901, Pachistopelma Pocock, 1901, Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895, Stromatopelma Karsch, 1881, Tapinauchenius Ausserer, 1871, Typhochlaena C. L. Koch, 1850, Ybyrapora gen. n.

Distribution (Fig. 3): from state of Vera Cruz in Mexico, throughout Central America and some Caribbean islands, northern and central South America to state of São Paulo, Brazil. They can be found from the Atlantic to Pacific coasts. Two genera ( Heteroscodra and Stromatopelma ) are found in West and Central Africa.

Key to Aviculariinae genera

(Females of Avicularia lynnae sp. n. and Avicularia caei sp. n. are unknown)