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. Genera , the World Spider Catalog accepted the following genera: Acanthogonatus Karsch, 1880 – South America Bayana Pérez-Miles, Costa & Montes de Oca, 2014 Pionothele Purcell, 1902 – South Africa, Namibia Pycnothele Chamberlin, 1917 – Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina Stanwellia Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 – Australia, New Zealand Stenoterommata Holmberg, 1881 – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina References Mygalomorphae families