Allothele Australis
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''Allothele'' is a
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of
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spider Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...
s in the family
Euagridae ''Euagridae'' is a family of mygalomorph spiders. The group was first described as a tribe in 1979 by Robert Raven, who in 1985 elevated it to a subfamily. In 2020, Opatova et al. elevated it further to a family. Genera , the World Spider Catal ...
. It was first described by R. W. E. Tucker in 1920.


Species

it contains five species: *'' Allothele australis'' (
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, 1903)
– South Africa *'' Allothele caffer'' (Pocock, 1902) (
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) – South Africa *'' Allothele malawi'' Coyle, 1984 – Malawi, South Africa *'' Allothele regnardi'' (Benoit, 1964) – Congo, Angola *'' Allothele teretis'' Tucker, 1920 – South Africa


References

Euagridae Mygalomorphae genera Spiders of Africa {{Euagridae-stub