Taxon details

Family: Macrothelidae / Genus: Orientothele

Orientothele wuliangensis (Wu & Z. Z. Yang, 2022)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2025-03-25
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056261]
  • Distribution: China
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Institute of Entomoceutics Research, Dali University (DUIER), Dali, China; m (MWl 11) (Wu et al., 2022a)
  • Paratype: Institute of Entomoceutics Research, Dali University (DUIER), Dali, China; 2m 8f 8jf (MWl 21-218) (Wu et al., 2022a)
Taxonomic references
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).
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

Wu, Y. Y., Li, Z. M., Yang, Y. & Yang, Z. Z. (2022a). Two new species of the genus Macrothele Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Macrothelidae) from China. Biodiversity Data Journal 10(e90967): 1-19. doi:10.3897/BDJ.10.e90967 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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
2022-11-01 New taxonomic reference entry Wu et al., 2022a n/a
2022-11-01 New species inserted Wu et al., 2022a n/a