Ischnothelidaeis a family of
mygalomorph
The Mygalomorphae, or mygalomorphs, are an infraorder of spiders, and comprise one of three major groups of living spiders with over 3000 species, found on all continents except Antarctica. Many members are known as trapdoor spiders due to the ...
spiders. It was first described as a subfamily of the family
Dipluridae
The family Dipluridae, known as curtain-web spiders (or confusingly with other distantly related ones as funnel-web tarantulas) are a group of spiders in the infraorder Mygalomorphae, that have two pairs of booklungs, and chelicerae (fangs) tha ...
by
F.O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1897 and raised to a family by Opatova et al. in 2020.
[ They are also known as scatter-web spiders.
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Genera
*'' Andethele'' Coyle, 1995
*'' Indothele'' Coyle, 1995
*''Ischnothele
''Ischnothele'', also known as scatter-web spiders is a genus of spiders in the family Ischnothelidae. It was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1875.
Species
it contained the following species:
*'' Ischnothele annulata'' Tullgren, 1905 †...
'' Ausserer, 1875
*'' Lathrothele'' Benoit, 1965
*''Thelechoris
''Thelechoris'' is a genus of East African spiders in the family Ischnothelidae. It was first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1881. it contained only two species, both found in Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially ...
'' Karsch, 1881
See also
* List of Ischnothelidae species
References
Mygalomorphae
Mygalomorphae families
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