Taxon details

Family: Macrothelidae / Genus: Orientothele

Orientothele yani (Xu, Yin & Griswold, 2002)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2025-03-25
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038361]
  • Distribution: China
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Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
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).
References

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

Shi, J. H., Yang, Z. B., Zhao, Y. & Yang, Z. Z. (2018). The first description on the male of Macrothele yani, and supplemental descriptions of female (Araneae: Macrothelidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 27(2): 103-107. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2018.02.003 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Xu, X., Yin, C. M. & Griswold, C. E. (2002). A new species of the spider genus Macrothele from the Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Hexathelidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 78(2): 116-119. 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 Orientothele
2018-12-18 New taxonomic reference entry Shi et al., 2018 n/a
2018-12-18 First description of male Shi et al., 2018 n/a (Old value)