Allothele

Allothele is a genus of African spiders in the family Euagridae. It was first described by R. W. E. Tucker in 1920.[2]

Allothele
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Euagridae
Genus: Allothele
Tucker, 1920[1]
Type species
A. caffer
(Pocock, 1902)
Species

5, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains five species:[1]

  • Allothele australis (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
  • Allothele caffer (Pocock, 1902) (type) – South Africa
  • Allothele malawi Coyle, 1984 – Malawi, South Africa
  • Allothele regnardi (Benoit, 1964) – Congo, Angola
  • Allothele teretis Tucker, 1920 – South Africa

References
  1. "Gen. Allothele Tucker, 1920". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  2. Tucker, R. W. E. (1920). "Contributions to the South African Arachnid Fauna. II. On some new South African spiders of the families Barychelidae, Dipluridae, Eresidae, Zodariidae, Heracliidae, Urocteidae, Clubionidae". Annals of the South African Museum. 17: 439–488.


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