World Spider Catalog

Macrothelidae Simon, 1892

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: originally as Macrotheleae, transferred from the Dipluridae to the Hexathelidae (Macrothelinae) by Raven, 1980a: 253; elavated to family rank by Hedin et al., 2018: 4 and confirmed by Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: f. 5; the re-including as Macrothelinae into the Hexathelidae by Raven & Douglas, 2025: 13 is not accepted here (see note at Hexathelidae).

Gen. Orientothele Mirza, Sanap & Kunte, 2017 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04394

type Orientothele alyratus Mirza, Sanap & Kunte, 2017; gender masculine

N.B.: transferred from the Dipluridae to the Hexathelidae and considered a junior synonym of Macrothele Ausserer, 1871 by Drolshagen, 2017: 282; revalidated by Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 342.

Orientothele alyrata Mirza, Sanap & Kunte, 2017 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049272

Orientothele alyratus Mirza, Sanap & Kunte, 2017: 34, f. 1, 2A-D, 3A-E, 4A-D, 5A-D (Df) Original description

Macrothele alyrata Drolshagen, 2017: 282 (T from Orientothele, Dipluridae)

Orientothele alyrata Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 342 (T from Macrothele)

Orientothele jingzhao (Chen, Jiang & Yang, 2020) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051825

Macrothele jingzhao Chen, Jiang & Yang, 2020: 117, f. 3A-K (Dm) Original description

Orientothele jingzhao Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele)

Orientothele jinlin (Z. B. Yang, Zhao, Zhang & Z. Z. Yang, 2018) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050779

Macrothele jinlin Yang et al., 2018: 100, f. 2A-V (Dm) Original description

Orientothele jinlin Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele)

Orientothele mingsheng (Wu & Z. Z. Yang, 2022) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056659

Macrothele yunnanica Zhu & Song, 2000b: 62, fig. 2A-E (f; misidentified per Wu et al., 2022b: 97 and is subadult)

Macrothele mingsheng Wu & Z. Z. Yang in Wu et al., 2022b: 98, f. 2A-N, 3A-K, 4C (Dmf) Original description

Orientothele mingsheng Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele)

Orientothele washanensis (Wu & Z. Z. Yang, 2022) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056260

Macrothele washanensis Wu & Z. Z. Yang in Wu et al., 2022a: 2, f. 1A-K, 2A-D, 3A-H, 4A-D, 5A-H, 6A-B, 7A-C (Dmf) Original description

Orientothele washanensis Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele)

Orientothele wuliangensis (Wu & Z. Z. Yang, 2022) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056261

Macrothele wuliangensis Wu & Z. Z. Yang in Wu et al., 2022a: 14, f. 8A-K, 9A-D, 10A-H, 11A-D, 12A-H, 13A-F, 14D (Dmf) Original description

Orientothele wuliangensis Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele)

Orientothele yani (Xu, Yin & Griswold, 2002) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038361

Macrothele yani Xu, Yin & Griswold, 2002: 116, f. 1-7 (Df) Original description

Macrothele yani Shi et al., 2018: 104, f. 1A-B, 2A-V, 3A-L (Dm, f)

Orientothele yani Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele)