Pycnothelidae

{{Short description| Family of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Pycnothelidae

| authority = Chamberlin,1917

| diversity = 15 genera, 139 species

| diversity_ref =

| image = Acanthogonatus pissii.jpg

| image_caption = Acanthogonatus pissii

}}

Pycnothelidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders first described in 1917.{{cite journal| last=Chamberlin| first=R. V.| year=1917| title=New spiders of the family Aviculariidae| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| volume=61| pages=25–75| author-link=Ralph Vary Chamberlin}} It was downgraded to a subfamily of the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,{{cite journal| last=Raven| first=R. J.| year=1985| title=The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics| journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| volume=182| page=86| author-link=Robert Raven}} but returned to family status in 2020.{{cite journal| last=Opatova| first=V.| display-authors=etal| year=2020| title=Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data| journal=Systematic Biology| volume=69| issue=4| pages=701–702| doi=10.1093/sysbio/syz064| pmid=31841157| doi-access=free}}