Biology:Macrothelidae
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Short description: Family of spiders
| Macrothelidae | |
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| Female Macrothele gigas | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Clade: | Avicularioidea |
| Family: | Macrothelidae Simon, 1892[1] |
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Macrothelidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders, split off from the family Hexathelidae in 2018. It contains three genera, Macrothele,[1] Vacrothele[2] and the extinct Promacrothele.[3]
Genera
- Macrothele Ausserer, 1871 Europe, Africa, Asia
- Vacrothele China
- Promacrothele Burmese amber, Myanmar, mid Cretaceous.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Family Macrothelidae Simon,1892", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/family/125, retrieved 2018-05-15
- ↑ Tang, Ya-Ni; Wu, Ya-Ying; Zhao, Yu; Yang, Zi-Zhong (2022-04-13). "Description of a new genus and two new species of the funnel-web mygalomorph (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Macrothelidae) from China with notes on taxonomic amendments". Zootaxa 5125 (5): 513–535. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5125.5.3. ISSN 1175-5334. https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5125.5.3.
- ↑ Tang, Ya-Ni; Peng, An-Cheng; Wu, Zi-Ying; Engel, Michael S.; Yang, Zi-Zhong; Liu, Yu (July 2023). "Mygalomorph spiders in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Araneae: Mygalomorphae), northern Myanmar: A new genus and species of the family Macrothelidae" (in en). Cretaceous Research 147: 105514. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105514. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0195667123000423.
Wikidata ☰ Q53536229 entry
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