Latouchia

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Latouchia
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Female Latouchia swinhoei
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Halonoproctidae
Genus: Latouchia
Pocock, 1901 [1]
Type species
L. davidi
(Simon, 1886)
Species

26, see text

Synonyms [1] [2]

Latouchia is a genus of Asian mygalomorph spiders in the family Halonoproctidae, first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1901. [3] The genus is presumably named in honour of John David Digues La Touche (who is named as "J. de La Touche" alongside "C. B. Rickett") as co-collector of the first described species Latouchia fossoria .

Originally placed with the family Ctenizidae, the genus was moved to the Halonoproctidae in 2018. [4]

Species

As of January 2025, it contains 30 species and 1 subspecies from India to Southeast Asia: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Latouchia Pocock, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 2025. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  2. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 151.
  3. Pocock, R. I. (1901). "On some new trap-door spiders from China". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 70 (2): 207–215. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08540.x.
  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. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.008. PMID   29656103. S2CID   4890400.