Centrothele
| Centrothele | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Lamponidae |
| Genus: | Centrothele L. Koch, 1873[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. lorata L. Koch, 1873
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Centrothele is a genus of South Pacific white tailed spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1873.[2] Originally placed with the Corinnidae, it was moved to the Lamponidae in 2000.[3]
Species
[edit]As of May 2019[update] it contains ten species found in Queensland, New South Wales, and one from New Guinea:[1]
- Centrothele cardell Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
- Centrothele coalston Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
- Centrothele fisher Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
- Centrothele gordon Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Centrothele kuranda Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
- Centrothele lorata L. Koch, 1873 (type) – Australia (Queensland)
- Centrothele mossman Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
- Centrothele mutica (Simon, 1897) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), New Guinea
- Centrothele nardi Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Centrothele spurgeon Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Centrothele L. Koch, 1873". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
- ^ Koch, L. (1873). Die Arachniden Australiens.
- ^ Platnick, N. I. (2000). "A relimitation and revision of the Australasian ground spider family Lamponidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 245: 173. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)245<0001:ARAROT>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/1592.
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