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| Lepthercus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
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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]
All described species are endemic to South Africa.[1]
Species
[edit]As of October 2025[update], this genus includes eleven species:[1]
- Lepthercus confusus Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020
- Lepthercus dippenaarae Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020
- Lepthercus dregei Purcell, 1902 (type species)
- Lepthercus engelbrechti Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020
- Lepthercus filmeri Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020
- Lepthercus haddadi Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020
- Lepthercus kwazuluensis Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020
- Lepthercus lawrencei Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020
- Lepthercus mandelai Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020
- Lepthercus rattrayi Hewitt, 1917
- Lepthercus sofiae Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Gen. Lepthercus Purcell, 1902". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-18.
- 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.
- ↑ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 86.
- ↑ 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.
Further reading
[edit]- Ríos-Tamayo, D.; Lyle, R. (2020). "The South African genus Lepthercus Purcell, 1902 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae): phylogeny and taxonomy". Zootaxa. 4766 (2): 261–305. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4766.2.2. hdl:11336/142115. PMID 33056597. S2CID 216050193.
- Hewitt, J. (1917). "Descriptions of new South African Arachnida". Annals of the Natal Museum. 3: 687–711.
