Taxon details

Family: Macrothelidae / Genus: Macrothele

Macrothele indicola (Tikader, 1969)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2025-03-17
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000317]
  • Distribution: India
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; m (3833/18) (Tripathi et al., 2025)
  • Paratype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; 1m (3833/18) (Tripathi et al., 2025)
  • Allotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; f (3833/18) (Tripathi et al., 2025)
Taxonomic references
Ischnothele indicola Tikader, 1969b: 160, f. 25-29 (Dmf).
Ischnothele indicola Coyle, 1995: 29 (misplaced in Ischnothelinae).
Macrothele indicola Tripathi et al., 2025: 208, f. 13A-M (mf, T from Ischnothele).
References

Coyle, F. A. (1995). A revision of the funnelweb mygalomorph spider subfamily Ischnothelinae (Araneae, Dipluridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 226: 1-133. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1969b). Studies on spider fauna of Khasi and Jaintia hills, Assam, India. Part III. Journal of the Assam Science Society 11: 154-163. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tripathi, R., Kadam, G., Sherwood, D. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2025). Revision of Indian Ischnothelidae (Arachnida: Araneae) and descriptions of two new species of Indothele Coyle, 1995. European Journal of Taxonomy 981: 189-212. doi:10.5852/ejt.2025.981.2827 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
2025-03-17 New taxonomic reference entry Tripathi et al., 2025 n/a
2025-03-17 Species transferred to new genus Tripathi et al., 2025 Species transferred from Ischnothele to Macrothele