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Luthela
''Luthela'' is a genus of spiders in the family Heptathelidae, found in China. Taxonomy The genus ''Luthela'' was erected in 2022 with the type species '' Luthela yiyuan''. Five further new species were described. The species ''Heptathela sinensis'' had been described in 1932 based on a female specimen, and transferred to the new genus ''Sinothela'' in 2003 based on a male specimen that cannot be confidently matched to the female, so the authors of ''Luthela'' regard both ''Sinothela sinensis'' and ''Sinothela'' to be (dubious names). Accordingly, two species that had been placed in ''Sinothela'' were transferred to ''Luthela''. Three further new species were added to the genus in 2023. Species , the World Spider Catalog The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of ... accepte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luthela Yuncheng
''Luthela'' is a genus of spiders in the family Heptathelidae, found in China. Taxonomy The genus ''Luthela'' was erected in 2022 with the type species ''Luthela yiyuan''. Five further new species were described. The species ''Heptathela sinensis'' had been described in 1932 based on a female specimen, and transferred to the new genus ''Sinothela'' in 2003 based on a male specimen that cannot be confidently matched to the female, so the authors of ''Luthela'' regard both ''Sinothela sinensis'' and ''Sinothela'' to be (dubious names). Accordingly, two species that had been placed in ''Sinothela'' were transferred to ''Luthela''. Three further new species were added to the genus in 2023. Species , the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species: *''Luthela asuka'' Wei & Lin, 2023 – China *''Luthela badong'' Xu, Yu, Liu & Li, 2022 – China *''Luthela beijing'' Wei & Lin, 2023 – China *''Luthela dengfeng'' Xu, Yu, Liu & Li, 2022 – China *''Luthela handan'' Xu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luthela Beijing
''Luthela'' is a genus of spiders in the family Heptathelidae, found in China. Taxonomy The genus ''Luthela'' was erected in 2022 with the type species '' Luthela yiyuan''. Five further new species were described. The species ''Heptathela sinensis'' had been described in 1932 based on a female specimen, and transferred to the new genus ''Sinothela'' in 2003 based on a male specimen that cannot be confidently matched to the female, so the authors of ''Luthela'' regard both ''Sinothela sinensis'' and ''Sinothela'' to be (dubious names). Accordingly, two species that had been placed in ''Sinothela'' were transferred to ''Luthela''. Three further new species were added to the genus in 2023. Species , the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species: *'' Luthela asuka'' Wei & Lin, 2023 – China *'' Luthela badong'' Xu, Yu, Liu & Li, 2022 – China *'' Luthela beijing'' Wei & Lin, 2023 – China *'' Luthela dengfeng'' Xu, Yu, Liu & Li, 2022 – China *'' Luthela handa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heptathelidae
Heptathelidae is a family of spiders. It has been sunk within the family Liphistiidae as the subfamily Heptathelinae, but was accepted by the World Spider Catalog. It is placed in suborder Mesothelae, which contains the most basal living spiders. Taxonomy The group was first proposed by Kyukichi Kishida in 1923, when he described a new genus, '' Heptathela'', and suggested creating two tribes within the family Liphistiidae, with ''Heptathela'' placed in Heptatheleae. In 1939, Alexander Petrunkevitch raised the tribe Heptatheleae to a separate family, Heptathelidae. In 1985, Robert Raven reunited the two families, a view supported by Breitling in 2022. Other authors have maintained two separate families, a position accepted by the World Spider Catalog . Phylogeny Molecular phylogenetic studies have repeatedly shown that the family is monophyletic. One possible relationship between the genera is shown in the following Bayesian cladogram (numbers in parentheses give the number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |