| Ischnothele Temporal range: | |
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| Ischnothele caudata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Ischnothelidae |
| Genus: | Ischnothele Ausserer, 1875 [1] |
| Type species | |
| I. caudata Ausserer, 1875 [1] | |
| Species | |
Ischnothele, also known as scatter-web spiders is a genus of spiders in the family Ischnothelidae. It was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1875. [1] [2]
As of July 2020 [update] it contained the following species: [1]
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Ischnothelidaeis a family of mygalomorph spiders. It was first described as a subfamily of the family Dipluridae by F.O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1897 and raised to a family by Opatova et al. in 2020. They are also known as scatter-web spiders.
Ischnothele caudata is a spider in the family Ischnothelidae, found from Mexico to Brazil. It was first described in 1875 by Anton Ausserer. Ausserer did not explain the choice of specific name, but the Latin word caudatus means 'tailed'.