Family: Liphistiidae Thorell, 1869 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0001] 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
2024-06-06
Described in
Xu et al., 2022: 134 (type Luthela yiyuan Xu, Yu, Liu & Li, 2022; gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
11accepted
2synonym
Reference

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 download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2024-06-06 Genus transferred to other family Sivayyapram et al., 2024b Luthela Xu & Li, 2022 transferred to Liphistiidae
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