World Spider Catalog

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

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

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056659

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056659

Described:

Distribution: China

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Institute of Entomoceutics Research, Dali University (DUIER), Dali, China m - (Wu et al., 2022b)
Paratype: Institute of Entomoceutics Research, Dali University (DUIER), Dali, China 3m 15f - (Wu et al., 2022b)

Taxonomic References

Macrothele yunnanica Zhu & Song, 2000b: 62, fig. 2A-E (f; misidentified per Wu et al., 2022b: 97 and is subadult)

Macrothele mingsheng Wu & Z. Z. Yang in Wu et al., 2022b: 98, f. 2A-N, 3A-K, 4C (Dmf) Original description

Orientothele mingsheng 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., Yang, Z. B., He, M. & Yang, Z. Z. (2022b). Revision of Macrothele yunnanica and description of a new species of the genus Macrothele (Araneae: Macrothelidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 31(2): 96-103. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2022.02.006 -- Show included taxa

Zhu, M. S. & Song, D. X. (2000b). Review of the Chinese funnel-web spiders of the genus Macrothele, with descriptions of two new species (Araneae: Hexathelidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 48: 59-64. -- 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
2022-12-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhu & Song, 2000b
2022-12-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Wu et al., 2022b
2022-12-01	New species inserted	Wu et al., 2022b