| Ganthela | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Mesothelae |
| Family: | Heptathelidae |
| Genus: | Ganthela Kuntner [1] |
| Type species | |
| Ganthela yundingensis | |
| Species | |
7, see text | |
Ganthela is a genus of spiders in the family Heptathelidae. [2] It was first described in 2015 by Xu & Kuntner. As of 2017 [update] , it contains 7 species, all of them from China. [1]
Ganthela comprises the following species: [1]
The Mesothelae are a suborder of spiders. As of April 2024, two extant families were accepted by the World Spider Catalog, Liphistiidae and Heptathelidae. Alternatively, the Heptathelidae can be treated as a subfamily of a more broadly circumscribed Liphistiidae. There are also a number of extinct families.
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Meotipa is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.
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