''Mediothele'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...
n
funnel-web spiders that was first described by
Robert John Raven &
Norman I. Platnick in 1978.
Species
it contains six species, all found in
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
:
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Mediothele anae''
Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2012 – Chile
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Mediothele australis''
Raven & Platnick, 1978 (
type) – Chile
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Mediothele lagos''
Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2012 – Chile
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Mediothele linares''
Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2012 – Chile
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Mediothele minima''
Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2012 – Chile
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Mediothele nahuelbuta''
Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2012 – Chile
References
Hexathelidae
Mygalomorphae genera
Spiders of South America
Endemic fauna of Chile
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