Mediothele

Mediothele is a genus of South American funnel-web spiders that was first described by Robert John Raven & Norman I. Platnick in 1978.[2]

Mediothele
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Hexathelidae
Genus: Mediothele
Raven & Platnick, 1978[1]
Type species
M. australis
Raven & Platnick, 1978
Species

6, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains six species, all found in Chile:[1]

  • Mediothele anae Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2012 – Chile
  • Mediothele australis Raven & Platnick, 1978 (type) – Chile
  • Mediothele lagos Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2012 – Chile
  • Mediothele linares Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2012 – Chile
  • Mediothele minima Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2012 – Chile
  • Mediothele nahuelbuta Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2012 – Chile

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Mediothele Raven & Platnick, 1978". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  2. Raven, R. J.; Platnick, N. I. (1978). "A new genus of the spider family Dipluridae from Chile (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)". Journal of Arachnology. 6: 73–77.


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