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Genus: Trichothyse Tucker, 1923 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Trichothyse furcata (Simon, 1914)

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Described:

Distribution: Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece

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Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m - (Di Franco, 2001)

Taxonomic References

Poecilochroa furcata Simon, 1914: 184, 221, f. 393-394 (Dm) Original description

Poecilochroa furcata Di Franco, 2001: 203, f. 3-4 (m)

Macarophaeus furcata Wunderlich, 2011: 46 (possible member of this genus)

Poecilochroa furcata Hoyas, 2024: 140, f. 3-6 (m)

Trichothyse furcata Sankaran, Haddad & Tripathi, 2025: 59 (T from Poecilochroa)

References

Di Franco, F. (2001). Gnaphosidae (Arachnida, Araneae) della Riserva Naturale Orientata "Oasi del Simeto" (Catania). Naturalista Siciliano 25: 195-215. -- Show included taxa

Hoyas, J. (2024). Primeros registros de arañas (Araneae) para la Castilla-La-Mancha y la provincia de Toledo, centro de España. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 45: 139-141. -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M., Haddad, C. R. & Tripathi, R. (2025). A review of the ground spider genus Trichothyse Tucker, 1923 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 5583(1): 39-70. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5583.1.2 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1914). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 1re partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-308. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2011). Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640. [[publ. in April]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-09-28	Species distribution update	Wunderlich, 2025	Old value
2025-01-31	New taxonomic reference entry	Sankaran, Haddad & Tripathi, 2025
2025-01-31	Species transferred to new genus	Sankaran, Haddad & Tripathi, 2025		Species transferred from Poecilochroa to Trichothyse
2024-12-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Hoyas, 2024
2024-12-27	Species distribution update	Hoyas, 2024	Old value