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

Spinathele holsti (Pocock, 1901)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000192

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Described:

Distribution: Taiwan

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m - (Shimojana & Haupt, 1998)

Taxonomic References

Macrothele holsti Pocock, 1901e: 214, pl. 21, f. 5 (Dm) Original description

Macrothele holsti Yoshida, 1978b: 9, f. 36 (m)

Macrothele holsti Shimojana & Haupt, 1998: 2, f. 1-2, 11, 21-22 (m, Df)

Spinathele holsti Shao, Zhou & Lin, 2025: 343 (T from Macrothele)

References

Pocock, R. I. (1901e). On some new trap-door spiders from China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 70(2): 207-215, pl. 21. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08540.x -- 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

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

Yoshida, H. (1978b). On some Formosan spiders (2). Atypus 72: 8-13. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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
2025-03-25	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 Spinathele