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Genus: Vacrothele Tang & Yang, 2022 | Family: Macrothelidae Simon, 1892

Vacrothele amamiensis (Shimojana & Haupt, 1998)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000185

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Described:

Distribution: Japan (Ryukyu Is.)

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Paratype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany 1m 1f (30673-30674) - (Shimojana & Haupt, 1998)
Holotype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan m - (Shimojana & Haupt, 1998)
Allotype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan f - (Shimojana & Haupt, 1998)
Paratype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan mm ff - (Shimojana & Haupt, 1998)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 2m 2f (ARTO 24451-24452) - (Shimojana & Haupt, 1998)

Taxonomic References

Macrothele amamiensis Shimojana & Haupt, 1998: 10, f. 3-4, 12, 18-19, 25 (Dmf) Original description

Macrothele amamiensis Shimojana, 2009: 95, f. 1, 14-19 (mf)

Vacrothele amamiensis Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele)

References

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

Shimojana, M. & Haupt, J. (1998). Taxonomy and natural history of the funnel-web spider genus Macrothele (Araneae: Hexathelidae: Macrothelinae) in the Ryukyu Islands (Japan) and Taiwan. Species Diversity 3: 1-15. -- Show included taxa

Shimojana, M. (2009). Hexathelidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 92-95. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-03-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025
2025-03-25	Species transferred to new genus	Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025		Species transferred from Macrothele to Vacrothele