World Spider Catalog

Ischnothelidae F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: described as subfamily of Dipluridae by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897a: 36, elevated to family level by Opatova et al., 2020: 697, including the genera Ischnothele, Andethele, Indothele, Lathrothele and Thelechoris); the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 487.

Gen. Thelechoris Karsch, 1881 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00045

type Thelechoris rutenbergi Karsch, 1881; gender feminine

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Ischnothele Ausserer, 1875 by Benoit, 1964e: 422 (rejecting Simon, 1903a: 968); transferred from the Dipluridae to the Ischnothelidae by Opatova et al., 2020: 697.

In synonymy:

Thelechoris cassetti (Tucker, 1920, T from Ischnothele) = Thelechoris striatipes (Simon, 1889) (Benoit, 1964e: 425, sub T. karschi)

Thelechoris karschi Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895 = Thelechoris striatipes (Simon, 1889) (Coyle, 1995: 117)

Thelechoris mashonica (Pocock, 1901, T from Ischnothele) = Thelechoris striatipes (Simon, 1889) (Benoit, 1964e: 425, sub T. karschi)

Thelechoris rutenbergi Karsch, 1881 | | Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000389 TYPE SPECIES

Thelechoris rutenbergi Karsch, 1881h: 196, pl. 12, f. C (Df) Original description

Thelechoris rutenbergi Simon, 1892a: 187 (S of Entomothele striatipes, revalidated by Coyle, 1995: 117, sub Thelechoris)

Ischnothele rutenbergi Strand, 1907f: 263

Ischnothele rutenbergi Strand, 1908f: 456, f. A (mf)

Thelechoris rutenbergi Benoit, 1964e: 424 (T from Ischnothele)

Thelechoris rutenbergi Coyle, 1995: 116, f. 374-387 (mf)

Thelechoris rutenbergi Zhang & Wang, 2017: 362, 3 f. (m)

Thelechoris striatipes (Simon, 1889) | | Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000390

Entomothele striatipes Simon, 1889b: 236 (Dmf) Original description

Telechoris karschii Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895: 27, pl. 2, f. 31 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064075]

Ischnothele mashonica Pocock, 1901b: 337 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064076]

Ischnothele karschi Strand, 1907f: 263

Ischnothele karschi Berland, 1914: 51, f. 8-10 (f, Dm)

Ischnothele gracilis Tucker, 1917: 123, f. 10 (Dm)

Ischnothele cassetti Tucker, 1920: 444 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064074]

Ischnothele karschi Berland, 1932b: 273, f. 403 (m)

Thalerothesis striatipes Franganillo, 1935a: 23 (lapsus for Thelechoris)

Ischnothele catamita Roewer, 1953b: 56, f. 19A-C (m; misidentified per Benoit, 1964e: 425)

Thelechoris karschi Benoit, 1964e: 424 (T from Ischnothele, S of Ischnothele cassetti and I. mashonica)

Thelechoris karschi Benoit, 1975a: 933, f. 15 (f)

Thelechoris karschi Raven, 1983a: 346, f. 1-7, pl. I, f. 1-2 (mf)

Thelechoris karschi Coyle & O'Shields, 1990: 281, f. 4-5 (mf)

Thelechoris striatipes Coyle, 1995: 117, f. 5, 31, 36-39, 42, 46, 52, 55, 388-446, 442 (mf, removed from S of Thelechoris rutenbergi, rejecting Simon, 1892a: 187, S of T. karschi)

Thelechoris striatipes Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021i: 5, p. 4: 1 f., p. 5: 7 f. (m, f habitus)