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Genus: Gigathele Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025 | Family: Macrothelidae Simon, 1892

Gigathele guizhouensis (Hu & Li, 1986)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000191

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Described:

Distribution: China

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Holotype: Shandong University (SDU), Jinan, China f - (Hu & Li, 1986)
Paratype: Shandong University (SDU), Jinan, China 2f - (Hu & Li, 1986)

Taxonomic References

Macrothele guizhouensis Hu & Li, 1986: 35, f. 1-7 (Df) Original description

Macrothele guizhouensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 36, f. 17C (f)

Macrothele guizhouensis Haupt, 2008: 20, f. 3D (f)

Macrothele guizhouensis Wu et al., 2022c: 129, f. 1A-F, 2A-I, 3A-E, 4A-F (Dm, f)

Gigathele guizhouensis Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 342 (T from Macrothele)

References

Haupt, J. (2008). An organ of stridulation in East Asian hexathelid spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 15: 19-23. -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. & Li, F. J. (1986). On two species of Macrothele from China (Araneae: Dipluridae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 11: 35-39. -- 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

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wu, Y. Y., Yang, Z. B., He, M., Li, Y. & Yang, Z. Z. (2022c). The first description on the male of Macrothele guizhouensis Hu & Li, 1986, and supplemental descriptions of female (Macrothelidae: Macrothele). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 31(2): 128-134. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2022.02.012 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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 Gigathele
2022-11-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Wu et al., 2022c
2022-11-30	First description of male	Wu et al., 2022c	Old value