''Mediothele'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...

n funnel-web spiders that was first described by Robert John Raven &

Norman I. Platnick Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and Arachnology, arachnologist. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of the American Museum of Natural History#Richard Gilder Gradua ...

in 1978.

Species

it contains six species, all found in

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

: *'' Mediothele anae'' Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2012 – Chile *'' Mediothele australis'' Raven & Platnick, 1978 (

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) – Chile *'' Mediothele lagos'' Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2012 – Chile *'' Mediothele linares'' Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2012 – Chile *'' Mediothele minima'' Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2012 – Chile *'' Mediothele nahuelbuta'' Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2012 – Chile

References

Hexathelidae Mygalomorphae genera Spiders of South America Endemic fauna of Chile {{Hexathelidae-stub