''Synothele'' 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 Australian brushed trapdoor spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1908. The number of species in the genera was greatly expanded by

Robert Raven Robert John Raven is an Australian arachnologist, being the Head of Terrestrial Biodiversity and the Senior Curator (Arachnida) at the Queensland Museum. Dr Raven has described many species of spider Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breath ...

in 1994.

Species

it contains twenty-four species: *'' Synothele arrakis'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele boongaree'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele butleri'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele durokoppin'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele goongarrie'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele harveyi'' Churchill & Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele houstoni'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele howi'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele karara'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele koonalda'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (South Australia) *'' Synothele longbottomi'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele lowei'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele meadhunteri'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia) *'' Synothele michaelseni'' Simon, 1908 ( type) – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele moonabie'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (South Australia) *'' Synothele mullaloo'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele ooldea'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (South Australia) *'' Synothele parifusca'' (

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, 1954) – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele pectinata'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele rastelloides'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele rubripes'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele subquadrata'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele taurus'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' Synothele yundamindra'' Raven, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia)

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Spiders of Australia Taxa named by Eugène Simon Barychelidae Mygalomorphae genera {{Mygalomorphae-stub