Family: Heptathelidae Kishida, 1923 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0152] Back
Gen.
Luthela Xu & Li, 2022 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04772 ]
N.B.: transferred from the Liphistiidae to the Heptathelidae by Li, 2022: 72; includes three former species of Sinothela Haupt, 2003 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04255] (now nomen dubium), but no information given by Xu et al., 2022 where the male of Sinothela sinensis (Bishop & Crosby, 1932) could belong to.
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2023-05-03
2023-05-03
Described in
Xu et al., 2022: 134 (type Luthela yiyuan Xu, Yu, Liu & Li, 2022; gender feminine)
Xu et al., 2022: 134 (type Luthela yiyuan Xu, Yu, Liu & Li, 2022; gender feminine)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 11 | accepted |
| 2 | synonym |
Reference
Edit history
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 
| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-25 | Genus transferred to other family | Li, 2022 | Luthela Xu & Li, 2022 transferred to Heptathelidae |
| 2022-01-13 | New genus inserted | Xu et al., 2022 | n/a |