| Lepthercus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Entypesidae |
| Genus: | Lepthercus Purcell, 1902 |
| Type species | |
| L. dregei Purcell, 1902 | |
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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. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was transferred to the Nemesiidae in 1985, then to the Entypesidae in 2020.
Species
As of June 2020 it contains eleven species, found in South Africa:
- Lepthercus confusus Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa
- Lepthercus dippenaarae Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa
- Lepthercus dregei Purcell, 1902 (type) – South Africa
- Lepthercus engelbrechti Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa
- Lepthercus filmeri Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa
- Lepthercus haddadi Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa
- Lepthercus kwazuluensis Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa
- Lepthercus lawrencei Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa
- Lepthercus mandelai Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa
- Lepthercus rattrayi Hewitt, 1917 – South Africa
- Lepthercus sofiae Ríos-Tamayo & Lyle, 2020 – South Africa
See also
References
- ^ "Gen. Lepthercus Purcell, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
- ^ 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
- 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.
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