Lepthercus

Lepthercus is a genus of South African araneomorph spiders in the family Entypesidae. It was first described by William Frederick Purcell in 1902.[2] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae,[2] it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,[3] then to the Entypesidae in 2020.[4]

Lepthercus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Entypesidae
Genus: Lepthercus
Purcell, 1902[1]
Type species
L. dregei
Purcell, 1902
Species

11, see text

Species

As of June 2020 it contains eleven species, found in South Africa:[1]

  • Lepthercus confusus Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa
  • Lepthercus dippenaarae Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa
  • Lepthercus dregei Purcell, 1902 (type) – South Africa
  • Lepthercus engelbrechti Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa
  • Lepthercus filmeri Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa
  • Lepthercus haddadi Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa
  • Lepthercus kwazuluensis Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa
  • Lepthercus lawrencei Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa
  • Lepthercus mandelai Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa
  • Lepthercus rattrayi Hewitt, 1917 – South Africa
  • Lepthercus sofiae Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Lepthercus Purcell, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
  2. Purcell, W. F. (1902). "New South African trap-door spiders of the family Ctenizidae in the collection of the South African Museum". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 11: 348–382.
  3. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 86.
  4. Opatova, V.; et al. (2020). "Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data". Systematic Biology. 69 (4): 701–702. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz064.

Further reading
  • Ríos-Tamayo, D.; Lyle, R. (2020). "The South African genus Lepthercus Purcell, 1902 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae): phylogeny and taxonomy". Zootaxa. 4766 (2): 261–305.
  • Hewitt, J. (1917). "Descriptions of new South African Arachnida". Annals of the Natal Museum. 3: 687–711.


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