Macrothelidae
Temporal range:
Female Macrothele gigas
Scientific classification Edit this 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 China
  • Promacrothele Burmese amber, Myanmar, mid Cretaceous.

References

  1. 1 2 "Family Macrothelidae Simon,1892", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2018-05-15
  2. 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.
  3. 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.


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