World Spider Catalog

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. Spinathele Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06256

type Macrothele hanfeii Lin & Li, 2021; gender feminine

Spinathele bannaensis (Xu & Yin, 2001) | | China, Laos urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038359

Macrothele bannaensis Xu & Yin, 2001b: 66, f. I.1-6 (Df) Original description

Macrothele bannaensis Yin et al., 2012: 138, f. 15a-f (f)

Macrothele bannaensis Li & Zha, 2013: 779, f. 17-30 (f, Dm)

Macrothele bannaensis Zhang & Wang, 2017: 305, 5 f. (mf)

Spinathele bannaensis Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele)

Spinathele hanfeii (Lin & Li, 2021) | | China (Hainan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053351 TYPE SPECIES

Macrothele hanfeii Lin & Li in Lin et al., 2021b: 6, f. 1C, 4A-B, 5A-B, 6A-E, 13F, 14F (Dmf) Original description

Spinathele hanfeii Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele)

Spinathele holsti (Pocock, 1901) | | Taiwan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000192

Macrothele holsti Pocock, 1901e: 214, pl. 21, f. 5 (Dm) Original description

Macrothele holsti Yoshida, 1978b: 9, f. 36 (m)

Macrothele holsti Shimojana & Haupt, 1998: 2, f. 1-2, 11, 21-22 (m, Df)

Spinathele holsti Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele)

Spinathele nanning (Lin & Li, 2021) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053354

Macrothele nanning Lin & Li in Lin et al., 2021b: 16, f. 11A-B, 12A-E, 13C, 14C (Dmf) Original description

Spinathele nanning Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele)