Taxon details

Family: Macrothelidae / Genus: Macrothele

Macrothele abrupta Benoit, 1965

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: f
  • Last updated: 2025-03-25
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000184]
  • Distribution: DR Congo
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; f (12914) (Benoit, 1965a)
Taxonomic references
Macrothele abruptus Benoit, 1965a: 127, f. 10-11 (Df).
Macrothele abrupta Brignoli, 1983c: 126.
Macrothele abrupta Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 345 (incertae sedis).
References

Benoit, P. L. G. (1965a). Dipluridae de l'Afrique Centrale (Araneae - Orthognatha) II. Genres Lathrothele nov. et Macrothele Ausserer. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 71(1-2): 113-128. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1983c). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 755 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Shao, L. L., Zhou, Z. C. & Lin, Y. J. (2025). Taxonomic revision of Macrothelidae Simon, 1892 and description of four new genera (Araneae, Macrothelidae). The Indochina Entomologist 1(36): 337-350. doi:10.70590/ice.2025.01.36 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

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2025-03-25 New taxonomic reference entry Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025 n/a