Macrothele
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Macrothele is a genus of mygalomorph spiders.
Most species occur in Asia from India to Japan and Java, with four found in Africa, and two in Europe.
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[edit] Description
Spiders of this genus are fairly large, with Chinese species ranging from one to three centimeters in female body length. Males are smaller, sometimes only half the size.
These spiders build tube-webs or funnel-webs under rocks, logs or crevices in the ground.[1]
[edit] Name
The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek makro "big" and thele, which refers to the spinnerets.
[edit] Species
- Macrothele abrupta Benoit, 1965 (Congo)
- Macrothele amamiensis Shimojana & Haupt, 1998 (Ryukyu Is.)
- Macrothele bannaensis Xu & Yin, 2001 (China)
- Macrothele calpeiana (Walckenaer, 1805) (Spain, North Africa)
- Macrothele camerunensis Simon, 1903 (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea)
- Macrothele cretica Kulczyn'ski, 1903 (Crete)
- Macrothele decemnotata Simon, 1909 (Vietnam)
- Macrothele gigas Shimojana & Haupt, 1998 (Ryukyu Is.)
- Macrothele guizhouensis Hu & Li, 1986 (China)
- Macrothele holsti Pocock, 1901 (Taiwan)
- Macrothele hunanica Zhu & Song, 2000 (China)
- Macrothele incisa Benoit, 1965 (Congo)
- Macrothele maculata (Thorell, 1890) (Myanmar, Sumatra, Java)
- Macrothele maculata annamensis Hogg, 1922 (Vietnam)
- Macrothele monocirculata Xu & Yin, 2000 (China)
- Macrothele palpator Pocock, 1901 (China, Hong Kong)
- Macrothele proserpina Simon, 1909 (Vietnam)
- Macrothele raveni Zhu, Li & Song, 2000 (China)
- Macrothele segmentata Simon, 1892 (Malaysia)
- Macrothele simplicata (Saito, 1933) (Taiwan)
- Macrothele taiwanensis Shimojana & Haupt, 1998 (Taiwan)
- Macrothele triangularis Benoit, 1965 (Congo)
- Macrothele variabiis Pavesi, 1898 (Java)
- Macrothele vidua Simon, 1906 (India)
- Macrothele yaginumai Shimojana & Haupt, 1998 (Ryukyu Is.)
- Macrothele yani Xu, Yin & Griswold, 2002 (China)
- Macrothele yunnanica Zhu & Song, 2000 (China)
