Conothele

Conothele
C. fragaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Halonoproctidae
Genus:	Conothele Thorell, 1878 [1]
Type species
C. malayana (Doleschall, 1859)
Species
35, see text
Synonyms [1]
Lechrictenus [2]

Conothele is a genus of mygalomorph spiders in the family Halonoproctidae, first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878. ^[3] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the Halonoproctidae in 2018. ^[4]

Species

As of September 2025 ^[update] it contains 38 species: ^[1]

• Conothele arboricola Pocock, 1899 – Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
• Conothele baisha H. Liu, Xu, Zhang, F. Liu & Li, 2019 – China (Hainan)
• Conothele baiyunensis X. Xu, C. Xu & Liu, 2017 – China
• Conothele baoting H. Liu, Xu, Zhang, F. Liu & Li, 2019 – China (Hainan)
• Conothele birmanica Thorell, 1887 – Myanmar
• Conothele cambridgei Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Conothele cangshan Yang & Xu, 2018 – China
• Conothele chinnarensis Sunil Jose, 2021 – India
• Conothele daxinensis X. Xu, C. Xu & Liu, 2017 – China
• Conothele deqin Yang & Xu, 2018 – China
• Conothele doleschalli Thorell, 1881 – Australia (Queensland)
• Conothele ferox Strand, 1913 – New Guinea
• Conothele fragaria (Dönitz, 1887) – Japan
• Conothele giganticus Siliwal & Raven, 2015 – India
• Conothele gressitti (Roewer, 1963) – Micronesia
• Conothele hebredisiana Berland, 1938 – Vanuatu
• Conothele isan Decae, Schwendinger & Hongpadharakiree, 2021 – Thailand
• Conothele jinggangshan H. Liu, Xu, Zhang, F. Liu & Li, 2019 – China
• Conothele khunthokhanbi Kananbala, Bhubaneshwari & Siliwal, 2015 – India
• Conothele lampra (Chamberlin, 1917) – USA?
• Conothele limatior Kulczyński, 1908 – New Guinea
• Conothele linzhi H. Liu, Xu, Zhang, F. Liu & Li, 2019 – China
• Conothele maculosa Yu, Yang & Zhang, 2024 – China
• Conothele malayana (Doleschall, 1859) (type) – Indonesia (Moluccas), New Guinea, Australia
• Conothele martensi Decae, Schwendinger & Hongpadharakiree, 2021 – Thailand
• Conothele medoga Zhang & Yu, 2021 – China
• Conothele mussoorie Tripathi & Kadam, 2025 – India
• Conothele nigriceps Pocock, 1898 – Solomon Is.
• Conothele ogalei Sanap, Pawar, Joglekar & Khandekar, 2022 – India
• Conothele purvaghati Mirza, 2022 – India
• Conothele sidiechongensis X. Xu, C. Xu & Liu, 2017 – China, Laos
• Conothele spinosa Hogg, 1914 – New Guinea
• Conothele taiwanensis (Tso, Haupt & Zhu, 2003) – Taiwan
• Conothele trachypus Kulczyński, 1908 – Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
• Conothele truncicola Saaristo, 2002 – Seychelles
• Conothele vali Siliwal, Nair, Molur & Raven, 2009 – India
• Conothele varvarti Siliwal, Nair, Molur & Raven, 2009 – India
• Conothele yundingensis X. Xu, C. Xu & Liu, 2017 – China

References

1. "Gen. Conothele Thorell, 1878". World Spider Catalog Version 22.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2021-07-02.
2. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 154.
3. Thorell, T. (1878). "Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 13.
4. Godwin, R. L.; et al. (2018). "Phylogeny of a cosmopolitan family of morphologically conserved trapdoor spiders (Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae) using Anchored Hybrid Enrichment, with a description of the family, Halonoproctidae Pocock 1901". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 126: 307. Bibcode:2018MolPE.126..303G. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.008. PMID   29656103.

External links

"Conothele". The Encyclopedia of Life .