World Spider Catalog

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: elevated to family status and relimited by Raven, 1980a: 252, new circumscription by Hedin et al., 2018: 5; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 487.

Gen. Plesiothele Raven, 1978 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00020

N.B.: transferred from the Dipluridae to the Hexathelidae by Raven, 1980a: 256.

Plesiothele fentoni (Hickman, 1936) | | Australia (Tasmania) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000214

Hexathele fentoni Hickman, 1936: 132, f. 1 (Dmf) Original description

Plesiothele fentoni Raven, 1978: 10, f. 75 (Tmf from Hexathele)

Plesiothele fentoni Gertsch & Platnick, 1979: 7, f. 25-26

Plesiothele fentoni Raven, 1985a: 71, f. 13-14