Family: Macrothelidae Simon, 1892 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0128] Detail
Gen. Orientothele Mirza, Sanap & Kunte, 2017 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04394] Detail
type Orientothele alyratus Mirza, Sanap & Kunte, 2017; gender masculine
N.B.: transferred from the Dipluridae to the Hexathelidae and considered a junior synonym of Macrothele Ausserer, 1871 by Drolshagen, 2017: 282; revalidated by Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 342.
Orientothele alyrata Mirza, Sanap & Kunte, 2017 | f | India     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049272]
Orientothele alyratus Mirza, Sanap & Kunte, 2017: 34, f. 1, 2A-D, 3A-E, 4A-D, 5A-D (Df).
Macrothele alyrata Drolshagen, 2017: 282 (T from Orientothele, Dipluridae).
Orientothele alyrata Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 342 (T from Macrothele).
Orientothele jingzhao (Chen, Jiang & Yang, 2020) | m | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051825]
Macrothele jingzhao Chen, Jiang & Yang, 2020: 117, f. 3A-K (Dm).
Orientothele jingzhao Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele).
Orientothele jinlin (Z. B. Yang, Zhao, Zhang & Z. Z. Yang, 2018) | m | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050779]
Macrothele jinlin Yang et al., 2018: 100, f. 2A-V (Dm).
Orientothele jinlin Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele).
Orientothele mingsheng (Wu & Z. Z. Yang, 2022) | m f | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056659]
Macrothele yunnanica Zhu & Song, 2000b: 62, fig. 2A-E (f; misidentified per Wu et al., 2022b: 97 and is subadult).
Macrothele mingsheng Wu & Z. Z. Yang, in Wu et al., 2022b: 98, f. 2A-N, 3A-K, 4C (Dmf).
Orientothele mingsheng Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele).
Orientothele washanensis (Wu & Z. Z. Yang, 2022) | m f | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056260]
Macrothele washanensis Wu & Z. Z. Yang, in Wu et al., 2022a: 2, f. 1A-K, 2A-D, 3A-H, 4A-D, 5A-H, 6A-B, 7A-C (Dmf).
Orientothele washanensis Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele).
Orientothele wuliangensis (Wu & Z. Z. Yang, 2022) | m f | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056261]
Macrothele wuliangensis Wu & Z. Z. Yang, in Wu et al., 2022a: 14, f. 8A-K, 9A-D, 10A-H, 11A-D, 12A-H, 13A-F, 14D (Dmf).
Orientothele wuliangensis Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele).
Orientothele yani (Xu, Yin & Griswold, 2002) | m f | China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038361]
Macrothele yani Xu, Yin & Griswold, 2002: 116, f. 1-7 (Df).
Macrothele yani Shi et al., 2018: 104, f. 1A-B, 2A-V, 3A-L (Dm, f).
Orientothele yani Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele).
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