Taxon details
Luthela schensiensis (Schenkel, 1953)
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2022-01-13
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000021]
- Distribution: China
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Liphistius schensiensis Gertsch, 1967b: 115 (elevated to species).
Heptathela sinensis schensiensis Haupt, 1983: 285, f. 9d (f, T from Liphistius, returned to subspecies).
Heptathela xianensis Zhu & Wang, 1983a: 131, f. 1-7 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057929].
Liphistius heyangensis Zhu & Wang, 1984: 251, f. 1-7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000007].
Heptathela schensiensis Platnick & Sedgwick, 1984: 4 (T from Liphistius).
Heptathela schensiensis Song & Haupt, 1984: 447, f. 1c-d, 2b, 2d, 3b (mf, elevated to species, S of Heptathela xianensis).
Heptathela xianensis Wang & Zhu, 1984: 403, f. 1-7 (Df).
Heptathela heyangensis Platnick, 1989b: 57 (T from Liphistius).
Heptathela schensiensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 33, f. 15E, L-M (mf).
Abcathela heyangensis Ono, 2000: 150 (T from Heptathela; N.B.: genus not accepted by Platnick in his online catalogs).
Abcathela schensiensis Ono, 2000: 150 (T from Heptathela; N.B.: genus not accepted by Platnick in his online catalogs).
Sinothela heyangensis Haupt, 2003: 71.
Sinothela schensiensis Haupt, 2003: 71, f. 62E (m).
Sinothela heyangensis Xu et al., 2015a: 139 (T from Heptathela).
Sinothela schensiensis Xu et al., 2015a: 139 (T from Heptathela).
Luthela schensiensis Xu et al., 2022: 145, 1, 10A-K, 11A-P (mf, T from Sinothela, S of Sinothela heyangensis).
Gertsch, W. J. (1967b). A new liphistiid spider from China (Araneae: Liphistiidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 75: 114-118. 
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Haupt, J. (2003). The Mesothelae -- a monograph of an exceptional group of spiders (Aaneae: Mesothelae): (Morphology, behaviour, ecology, taxonomy, distribution and phylogeny). Zoologica 154: 1-102. -- Show included taxa
Haupt, J. (1983). Vergleichende Morphologie der Genitalorgane und Phylogenie der liphistiomorphen Webspinnen (Araneae: Mesothelae). I. Revision der bisher bekannten Arten. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 21(4): 275-293. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.1983.tb00296.x -- Show included taxa
Ono, H. (2000). Zoogeographic and taxonomic notes on spiders of the subfamily Heptathelinae (Araneae, Mesothelae, Liphistiidae). Memoirs of the National Science Museum Tokyo, Series A, Zoology 33: 145-151. -- Show included taxa
Platnick, N. I. (1989b). Advances in spider taxonomy 1981-1987: a supplement to Brignoli's A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 673 pp. -- Show included taxa
Platnick, N. I. & Sedgwick, W. C. (1984). A revision of the spider genus Liphistius (Araneae, Mesothelae). American Museum Novitates 2781: 1-31. -- Show included taxa
Schenkel, E. (1953b). Chinesische Arachnoidea aus dem Museum Hoangho-Peiho in Tientsin. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (N.S., Zool.) 119: 1-108. -- Show included taxa
Song, D. X. & Haupt, J. (1984). Comparative morphology and phylogeny of liphistiomorph spiders (Araneae: Mesothelae). 2. Revision of new Chinese heptathelid species. Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 27: 443-451. -- Show included taxa
Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa
Wang, Y. W. & Zhu, C. D. (1984). Notes of female spiders of Heptathela xianensis (Araneae: Heptathelidae). Journal of the Bethune Medical University 10: 403-404. -- Show included taxa
Xu, X., Liu, F. X., Chen, J., Ono, H., Li, D. Q. & Kuntner, M. (2015a). A genus-level taxonomic review of primitively segmented spiders (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae). ZooKeys 488: 121-151. doi:10.3897/zookeys.488.8726 -- Show included taxa
Xu, X., Yu, L., Liu, F. X. & Li, D. Q. (2022). Delimitation of the segmented trapdoor spider genus Luthela gen. nov., with comments on the genus Sinothela from northern China (Araneae, Mesothelae, Liphistiidae). Zootaxa 5091(1): 131-154. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5091.1.5 -- Show included taxa
Zhu, C. D. & Wang, Y. W. (1984). A new species of genus Liphistius (Araneae: Liphistiidae). Journal of the Bethune Medical University 10: 251-253. -- Show included taxa
Zhu, C. D. & Wang, Y. W. (1983a). [A new species of spider of the genus Heptathela from China (Araneae: Heptathelidae)]. Journal of the Bethune Medical University 9(suppl.): 131-132. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-13 | Species synonymy | Xu et al., 2022 | Luthela heyangensis synonymized with Luthela schensiensis |
| 2022-01-13 | New taxonomic reference entry | Xu et al., 2022 | n/a |
| 2022-01-13 | Species transferred to new genus | Xu et al., 2022 | Species transferred from Sinothela to Luthela |
| 2015-05-04 | New taxonomic reference entry | Xu et al., 2015a | n/a |
| 2015-05-04 | Species transferred to new genus | Xu et al., 2015a | Species transferred from Heptathela to Sinothela |