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''Lathrothele'' is a
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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
Ischnothelidae Ischnothelidaeis a family of mygalomorph spiders. It was first described as a subfamily of the family Dipluridae The family Dipluridae, known as curtain-web spiders (or confusingly as funnel-web tarantulas, a name shared with other distantly re ...
. It was first described by Pierre L.G. Benoit in 1965.


Species

it contained the following species: *'' Lathrothele catamita'' (
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, 1907)
– São Tomé and Príncipe *'' Lathrothele cavernicola'' Benoit, 1965 – Congo *'' Lathrothele grabensis'' Benoit, 1965 (
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) – Cameroon, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi *'' Lathrothele jezequeli'' Benoit, 1965 – Ivory Coast *'' Lathrothele mitonae'' Bäckstam, Drolshagen & Seiter, 2013 – Gabon


References

Mygalomorphae Mygalomorphae genera {{Ischnothelidae-stub