Taxon details

Family: Macrothelidae / Genus: Orientothele

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

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2025-03-25
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056659]
  • Distribution: China
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Institute of Entomoceutics Research, Dali University (DUIER), Dali, China; m (Wu et al., 2022b)
  • Paratype: Institute of Entomoceutics Research, Dali University (DUIER), Dali, China; 3m 15f (Wu et al., 2022b)
Taxonomic references
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).
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., Yang, Z. B., He, M. & Yang, Z. Z. (2022b). Revision of Macrothele yunnanica and description of a new species of the genus Macrothele (Araneae: Macrothelidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 31(2): 96-103. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2022.02.006 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhu, M. S. & Song, D. X. (2000b). Review of the Chinese funnel-web spiders of the genus Macrothele, with descriptions of two new species (Araneae: Hexathelidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 48: 59-64. 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
2022-12-01 New taxonomic reference entry Zhu & Song, 2000b n/a
2022-12-01 New taxonomic reference entry Wu et al., 2022b n/a
2022-12-01 New species inserted Wu et al., 2022b n/a