Taxon details


Sinothela sinensis (Bishop & Crosby, 1932)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: nomen dubium
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-06-13
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000023]
  • Distribution: China
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA; f (not lost!) (Xu et al., 2022)
Taxonomic references
Heptathela sinensis Bishop & Crosby, 1932: 5, f. 1-7 (Df).
Heptathela sinensis Bristowe, 1933a: 1055, f. 12.
Heptathela sinensis Wen & Zhu, 1980: 39, f. 1.1-9 (f, Dm).
Heptathela sinensis Haupt, 1983: 285, f. 9c (f).
Heptathela sinensis Hu, 1984: 26, f. 24-26 (mf).
Heptathela sinensis Song & Haupt, 1984: 445, f. 1a-b, 2a, 3a (m).
Heptathela sinensis Zhu & Shi, 1985: 48, f. 39a-g (mf).
Heptathela sinensis Zhang, 1987: 44, f. 30.1-5 (mf).
Heptathela sinensis Zhao, 1993: 53, f. 19a-c (mf).
Heptathela sinensis Zhao, 1995: 773, f. 355a-c (mf).
Heptathela sinensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 33, f. 15F, N-O (mf).
Abcathela sinensis Ono, 2000: 150 (T from Heptathela; N.B.: genus not accepted by Platnick in his online catalogs).
Heptathela sinensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 46, f. 17A-E (mf).
Sinothela sinensis Haupt, 2003: 71, f. 62F (m).
Songthela sinensis Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 30, f. 10A-D (mf).
Sinothela sinensis Xu et al., 2015a: 139 (T from Heptathela, mf f. 35-39 see Luthela yiyuan).
Sinothela sinensis Xu et al., 2022: 152 (nomen dubium [f], but no information given where the male could belong to).
References

Bishop, S. C. & Crosby, C. R. (1932). A new species of the spider family Liphistiidae from China. Peking Natural History Bulletin 6(3): 5-7. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bristowe, W. S. (1933a). The liphistiid spiders. With an appendix on their internal anatomy by J. Millot. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 102(4, 1932): 1015-1057, pl. 1-6. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb01575.x download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. (1984). The Chinese spiders collected from the fields and the forests. Tianjin Science and Technology Press, 482 pp. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (2001). The Fauna of Hebei, China: Araneae. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 510 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wen, Z. G. & Zhu, C. D. (1980). Four species of male spiders (Araneae) from China. Journal of the Bethune Medical University 6: 39-43. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhang, W. S. (ed.) (1987). [Farm spiders from Hebei Province]. Hebei University of Science and Technology Press, 299 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhao, J. Z. (1993). Spiders in the cotton fields in China. Wuhan Publishing House, Wuhan, China, 552 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhao, J. Z. (1995). Araneida. In: Natural enemies of cotton pests in China. Wuhan Publishing House, Wuhan, China, pp. 762-1155. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhu, M. S. & Shi, J. G. (1985). [Crop field spiders of Shanxi Province]. Agriculture Planning Committee of Shanxi Province (for 1983), 239 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhu, M. S. & Zhang, B. S. (2011). Spider Fauna of Henan: Arachnida: Araneae. Science Press, Beijing, 558 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-06-13 New taxonomic reference entry Zhao, 1995 n/a
2022-01-13 Taxon is nomen dubium Xu et al., 2022 Sinothela sinensis (Bishop & Crosby, 1932) declared a nomen dubium
2022-01-13 New taxonomic reference entry Xu et al., 2022 n/a
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