World Spider Catalog

Genus: Orientothele Mirza, Sanap & Kunte, 2017 | Family: Macrothelidae Simon, 1892

Orientothele wuliangensis (Wu & Z. Z. Yang, 2022)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056261

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Described:

Distribution: China

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Institute of Entomoceutics Research, Dali University (DUIER), Dali, China m (MWl 11) - (Wu et al., 2022a)
Paratype: Institute of Entomoceutics Research, Dali University (DUIER), Dali, China 2m 8f 8jf (MWl 21-218) - (Wu et al., 2022a)

Taxonomic References

Macrothele wuliangensis Wu & Z. Z. Yang in Wu et al., 2022a: 14, f. 8A-K, 9A-D, 10A-H, 11A-D, 12A-H, 13A-F, 14D (Dmf) Original description

Orientothele wuliangensis 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

Wu, Y. Y., Li, Z. M., Yang, Y. & Yang, Z. Z. (2022a). Two new species of the genus Macrothele Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Macrothelidae) from China. Biodiversity Data Journal 10(e90967): 1-19. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e90967 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	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 Orientothele
2022-11-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Wu et al., 2022a
2022-11-01	New species inserted	Wu et al., 2022a