| Macrothelidae Temporal range:
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|---|---|
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| Female Macrothele gigas | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Clade: | Avicularioidea |
| Family: |
Macrothelidae Simon, 1892 [1] |
| Genera | |
Macrothelidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders, split off from the family Hexathelidae in 2018. It contains three genera, Macrothele, [1] Vacrothele [2] and the extinct Promacrothele. [3]
Genera
- Macrothele Ausserer, 1871 Europe, Africa, Asia
- Vacrothele Tang & Yang, 2022 China
- Promacrothele Burmese amber, Myanmar, mid Cretaceous.
References
- ^ a b "Family Macrothelidae Simon,1892", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2018-05-15
- ^ Tang, Ya-Ni; Wu, Ya-Ying; Zhao, Yu; Yang, Zi-Zhong (2022-04-13). "Description of a new genus and two new species of the funnel-web mygalomorph (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Macrothelidae) from China with notes on taxonomic amendments". Zootaxa. 5125 (5): 513–535. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5125.5.3. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ Tang, Ya-Ni; Peng, An-Cheng; Wu, Zi-Ying; Engel, Michael S.; Yang, Zi-Zhong; Liu, Yu (July 2023). "Mygalomorph spiders in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Araneae: Mygalomorphae), northern Myanmar: A new genus and species of the family Macrothelidae". Cretaceous Research. 147: 105514. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105514.
| Macrothelidae Temporal range:
| |
|---|---|
|
| |
| Female Macrothele gigas | |
|
Scientific classification
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Clade: | Avicularioidea |
| Family: |
Macrothelidae Simon, 1892 [1] |
| Genera | |
Macrothelidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders, split off from the family Hexathelidae in 2018. It contains three genera, Macrothele, [1] Vacrothele [2] and the extinct Promacrothele. [3]
Genera
- Macrothele Ausserer, 1871 Europe, Africa, Asia
- Vacrothele Tang & Yang, 2022 China
- Promacrothele Burmese amber, Myanmar, mid Cretaceous.
References
- ^ a b "Family Macrothelidae Simon,1892", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2018-05-15
- ^ Tang, Ya-Ni; Wu, Ya-Ying; Zhao, Yu; Yang, Zi-Zhong (2022-04-13). "Description of a new genus and two new species of the funnel-web mygalomorph (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Macrothelidae) from China with notes on taxonomic amendments". Zootaxa. 5125 (5): 513–535. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5125.5.3. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ Tang, Ya-Ni; Peng, An-Cheng; Wu, Zi-Ying; Engel, Michael S.; Yang, Zi-Zhong; Liu, Yu (July 2023). "Mygalomorph spiders in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Araneae: Mygalomorphae), northern Myanmar: A new genus and species of the family Macrothelidae". Cretaceous Research. 147: 105514. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105514.