''Lathrothele'' is a
genus
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of
Africa
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n
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:
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Lathrothele catamita''
(Simon
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, 1907) – São Tomé and Príncipe
*''
Lathrothele cavernicola''
Benoit, 1965 – Congo
*''
Lathrothele grabensis''
Benoit, 1965 (
type
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) – Cameroon, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi
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Lathrothele jezequeli''
Benoit, 1965 – Ivory Coast
*''
Lathrothele mitonae''
Bäckstam, Drolshagen & Seiter, 2013 – Gabon
References
Mygalomorphae
Mygalomorphae genera
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