''Ischnothele caudata'' is a

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in the family

Ischnothelidae Ischnothelidaeis a family of mygalomorph spiders. It was first described as a subfamily of the family Dipluridae by F.O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1897 and raised to a family by Opatova et al. in 2020. They are also known as scatter-web spiders. Gene ...

, found from

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. It was first described in 1875 by

Anton Ausserer Anton Ausserer (5 July 184320 July 1889)Maurer, Ferdinand: ''Nachruf an Dr. Anton Ausserer.'' Programm des kk. acad. Gymnasiums in Grätz. Graz 1890 was an Austrian naturalist specialising in spiders.Bonnet, Pierre: Bibliographia aranearum, Les ...

. Ausserer did not explain the choice of

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, but the Latin word ''caudatus'' means 'tailed'.

References

Mygalomorphae Spiders of North America Spiders of South America Spiders described in 1875 {{Mygalomorphae-stub