World Spider Catalog

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: this spelling (not Lipistiidae) on the Official List of Family and Generic Names in Zoology; considered a senior synonym of Heptathelidae Kishida, 1923: 242 by Raven, 1985a: 16, confirmed by Breitling, 2022a: 3 and Sivayyapram et al., 2024b: 254 (by majority vote of the WSC boards), rejecting Petrunkevitch, 1939a: 149, Haupt, 1983: 289, Li, 2022: 72 and Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 485, f. 5; Kishida, 1923: 242 erected the subfamily Anadiasthothelinae, which became a synonym of Liphistiidae by the synonymy of the type genus Anadiastothele Simon, 1903 with Liphistius Schiødte, 1849 by Bristowe, 1933a: 1030 (by transfer of the type species).

Gen. Ganthela Xu & Kuntner, 2015 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04253

N.B.: transferred from the Liphistiidae to the Heptathelidae by Li, 2022: 72.

Ganthela cipingensis (Wang, 1989) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000004

Liphistius cipingensis Wang, 1989a: 30, f. 1-6 (Df) Original description

Heptathela cipingensis Platnick, 1993c: 77 (T from Liphistius)

Songthela cipingensis Ono, 2000: 150

Ganthela cipingensis Xu et al., 2015a: 131 (T from Heptathela)

Ganthela cipingensis Xu et al., 2015b: 296, f. 4A-C (f)

Ganthela jianensis Xu, Kuntner & Chen, 2015 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048038

Ganthela jianensis Xu, Kuntner & Chen in Xu et al., 2015b: 298, f. 5A-C (Df) Original description

Ganthela qingyuanensis Xu, Kuntner & Liu, 2015 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048039

Ganthela qingyuanensis Xu, Kuntner & Liu in Xu et al., 2015b: 299, f. 6A-H (Dmf) Original description

Ganthela venus Xu, 2015 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048042

Ganthela venus Xu in Xu et al., 2015b: 302, f. 9A-B (Df) Original description

Ganthela wangjiangensis Xu, Kuntner & Liu, 2015 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048040

Ganthela wangjiangensis Xu, Kuntner & Liu in Xu et al., 2015b: 301, f. 7A-B (Df) Original description

Ganthela xianyouensis Xu, Kuntner & Chen, 2015 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048041

Ganthela xianyouensis Xu, Kuntner & Chen in Xu et al., 2015b: 301, f. 8A-C (Df) Original description

Ganthela yundingensis Xu, 2015 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047606

Ganthela yundingensis Xu in Xu et al., 2015a: 132, f. 10-14 (Dmf) Original description