Trichothyse

Trichothyse
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Trichothyse Tucker, 1923 [1]
Type species
T. hortensis Tucker, 1923
Species
17, see text

Trichothyse is a genus of African ground spiders that was first described by R.W.E. Tucker in 1923. ^[2]

Species

As of September 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes 17 species and 1 subspecies: ^[1]

• Trichothyse africana (Tucker, 1923) – Mozambique, South Africa
• Trichothyse antineae (Fage, 1929) – Mali
• Trichothyse fontensis Lawrence, 1928 – Namibia, South Africa
• Trichothyse furcata (Simon, 1914) – Spain, France, Italy, Greece
• Trichothyse golan (Levy, 1999) – Israel
• Trichothyse hamipalpis (Kroneberg, 1875) – Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan
• Trichothyse hortensis Tucker, 1923 – Namibia, South Africa (type species)
• Trichothyse ilkerakkusi (Coşar, Danışman & Marusik, 2024) – Turkey
• Trichothyse jodhpurensis (Gajbe, 1993) – India
• Trichothyse karoo Haddad & Sankaran, 2025 – South Africa
• Trichothyse loricata (Kritscher, 1996) – Malta, Italy (Sicily)
• Trichothyse perversa (Simon, 1914) – France
• Trichothyse poonaensis (Tikader, 1982) – Portugal, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Israel, India
• Trichothyse pugnax (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) – Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia, Israel
• Trichothyse senilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – North Africa, Portugal, Turkmenistan. Introduced to Cape Verde
  • Trichothyse senilis auspex (Simon, 1878) – Spain, France
• Trichothyse subtropica Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
• Trichothyse zuluensis (Lawrence, 1938) – Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho

References

1. "Genus Trichothyse". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
2. Tucker, R. W. E. (1923). "The Drassidae of South Africa". Annals of the South African Museum. 19: 251–437.