Lepthercus

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Lepthercus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Entypesidae
Genus: Lepthercus
Purcell, 1902 [1]
Type species
L. dregei
Purcell, 1902
Species

11, see text

Lepthercus is a genus of South African mygalomorph spiders in the family Entypesidae. It was first described by William Frederick Purcell in 1902. [2] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, [2] it was transferred to the Nemesiidae in 1985, [3] then to the Entypesidae in 2020. [4]

Contents

All described species are endemic to South Africa. [1]

Species

As of October 2025, this genus includes eleven species: [1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Lepthercus Purcell, 1902". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-18.
  2. 1 2 Purcell, W. F. (1902). "New South African trap-door spiders of the family Ctenizidae in the collection of the South African Museum". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 11: 348–382. doi:10.1080/21560382.1900.9525972.
  3. ↑ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 86.
  4. ↑ Opatova, V.; et al. (2020). "Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data". Systematic Biology. 69 (4): 701–702. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syz064 . PMID   31841157.

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