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

Macrothele abrupta Benoit, 1965

SPECIES | NOMEN DUBIUM

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Described: j

Distribution: DR Congo

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Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium j (Ara.12914) - (Sherwood & Jocqué, 2025b)

Taxonomic References

Macrothele abruptus Benoit, 1965a: 127, f. 10-11 (Df; immature per Sherwood & Jocqué, 2025b: 69) Original description

Macrothele abrupta Brignoli, 1983c: 126

Macrothele abrupta Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 345 (incertae sedis)

Macrothele abrupta Sherwood & Jocqué, 2025b: 69, f. 1A-G (j, immature, unidentifiable, nomen dubium)

References

Benoit, P. L. G. (1965a). Dipluridae de l'Afrique Centrale (Araneae - Orthognatha) II. Genres Lathrothele nov. et Macrothele Ausserer. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 71(1-2): 113-128. -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1983c). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 755 pp. -- Show included taxa

Shao, L. L., Zhou, Z. C. & Lin, Y. J. (2025). Taxonomic revision of Macrothelidae Simon, 1892 and description of four new genera (Araneae, Macrothelidae). The Indochina Entomologist 1(36): 337-350. doi: 10.70590/ice.2025.01.36 -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. & Jocqué, R. (2025b). Three’s a crowd: on the taxonomic status of three species of Macrothele Ausserer, 1871 described from Africa by Pierre L. G. Benoit (Araneae: Macrothelidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 47: 69-72. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-01-09	Taxon is nomen dubium	Sherwood & Jocqué, 2025b		Taxon declared a nomen dubium
2025-03-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025