Taxon details

Family: Macrothelidae / Genus: Spinathele

Spinathele holsti (Pocock, 1901)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2025-03-25
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000192]
  • Distribution: Taiwan
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m (Shimojana & Haupt, 1998)
Taxonomic references
Macrothele holsti Pocock, 1901e: 214, pl. 21, f. 5 (Dm).
Macrothele holsti Yoshida, 1978b: 9, f. 36 (m).
Macrothele holsti Shimojana & Haupt, 1998: 2, f. 1-2, 11, 21-22 (m, Df).
Spinathele holsti Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele).
References

Pocock, R. I. (1901e). On some new trap-door spiders from China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 70(2): 207-215, pl. 21. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08540.x 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

Shimojana, M. & Haupt, J. (1998). Taxonomy and natural history of the funnel-web spider genus Macrothele (Araneae: Hexathelidae: Macrothelinae) in the Ryukyu Islands (Japan) and Taiwan. Species Diversity 3: 1-15. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yoshida, H. (1978b). On some Formosan spiders (2). Atypus 72: 8-13. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2025-03-25 New taxonomic reference entry Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025 n/a
2025-03-25 Species transferred to new genus Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025 Species transferred from Macrothele to Spinathele