''Linothele'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...
n
curtain web spiders that was first described by
Ferdinand Karsch
Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch or Karsch-Haack (2 September 1853, in Münster – 20 December 1936, in Berlin) was a German arachnologist, entomologist and anthropologist.
The son of a doctor, Karsch was educated at the Friedrich Wilhelm Univers ...
in 1879.
The venom of Linothele sp has a median lethal dose of 0.6 mg / kg, two toxins, both of low
molecular weight
A molecule is a group of two or more atoms held together by attractive forces known as chemical bonds; depending on context, the term may or may not include ions which satisfy this criterion. In quantum physics, organic chemistry, and bioch ...
, were isolated in the venom,
Ls1 and
Ls2. These two toxins have been shown to be quite lethal to white mice by injection into the cerebroventricular region. The lethal dose of Ls1 and Ls2 is 24 and 19 μg / kg respectively, both toxins represent 0.21% and 0.43% of the weight of the whole venom.
Species
it contains twenty-one species:
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Linothele cavicola''
Goloboff, 1994 – Ecuador
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Linothele cristata''
(Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Brazil
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Linothele curvitarsis''
Karsch, 1879 (
type) – Venezuela
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Linothele fallax''
(Mello-Leitão, 1926) – Bolivia, Brazil
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Linothele gaujoni''
(Simon, 1889) – Ecuador
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Linothele jelskii''
( F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Peru
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Linothele longicauda''
(Ausserer, 1871) – Ecuador
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Linothele macrothelifera''
Strand
Strand may refer to:
Topography
*The flat area of land bordering a body of water, a:
** Beach
** Shoreline
* Strand swamp, a type of swamp habitat in Florida
Places Africa
* Strand, Western Cape, a seaside town in South Africa
* Strand Street ...
, 1908 – Colombia
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Linothele melloleitaoi''
( Brignoli, 1983) – Colombia
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Linothele monticolens''
(Chamberlin, 1916) – Peru
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Linothele paulistana''
(Mello-Leitão, 1924) – Brazil
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Linothele pukachumpi''
Dupérré & Tapia, 2015 – Ecuador
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Linothele quori''
Dupérré & Tapia, 2015 – Ecuador
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Linothele septentrionalis''
Drolshagen & Bäckstam, 2021 – Bahamas
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Linothele sericata''
(Karsch, 1879) – Colombia
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Linothele sexfasciata''
(Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1945) – Venezuela
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Linothele spinosa''
Drolshagen & Bäckstam, 2021 – Peru
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Linothele tsachilas''
Dupérré & Tapia, 2015 – Ecuador
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Linothele uniformis''
Drolshagen & Bäckstam, 2021 – Peru
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Linothele yanachanka''
Dupérré & Tapia, 2015 – Ecuador
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Linothele zaia''
Dupérré & Tapia, 2015 – Ecuador
References
Dipluridae
Mygalomorphae genera
Taxa named by Ferdinand Karsch
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