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Genus: Macrothele Ausserer, 1871 | Family: Macrothelidae Simon, 1892

Macrothele indicola (Tikader, 1969)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000317

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Described:

Distribution: India

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India m (3833/18) - (Tripathi et al., 2025)
Allotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India f (3833/18) - (Tripathi et al., 2025)
Paratype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India 1m (3833/18) - (Tripathi et al., 2025)

Taxonomic References

Ischnothele indicola Tikader, 1969b: 160, f. 25-29 (Dmf) Original description

Ischnothele indicola Coyle, 1995: 29 (misplaced in Ischnothelinae)

Macrothele indicola Tripathi et al., 2025: 208, f. 13A-M (mf, T from Ischnothele)

References

Coyle, F. A. (1995). A revision of the funnelweb mygalomorph spider subfamily Ischnothelinae (Araneae, Dipluridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 226: 1-133. -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1969b). Studies on spider fauna of Khasi and Jaintia hills, Assam, India. Part III. Journal of the Assam Science Society 11: 154-163. -- Show included taxa

Tripathi, R., Kadam, G., Sherwood, D. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2025). Revision of Indian Ischnothelidae (Arachnida: Araneae) and descriptions of two new species of Indothele Coyle, 1995. European Journal of Taxonomy 981: 189-212. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2025.981.2827 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-03-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Tripathi et al., 2025
2025-03-17	Species transferred to new genus	Tripathi et al., 2025		Species transferred from Ischnothele to Macrothele