Lepthercus Explained

Lepthercus is a genus of South African mygalomorph spiders in the family Entypesidae. It was first described by William Frederick Purcell in 1902.^[1] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was transferred to the Nemesiidae in 1985,^[2] then to the Entypesidae in 2020.^[3]

Species

it contains eleven species, found in South Africa:^[4]

• 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

• List of Entypesidae species

Further reading

• Ríos-Tamayo. D.. Lyle. R.. 2020. The South African genus Lepthercus Purcell, 1902 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae): phylogeny and taxonomy. Zootaxa. 261–305. 4766. 2. 10.11646/zootaxa.4766.2.2. 33056597. 216050193. 11336/142115. free.
• Hewitt. J.. 1917. Descriptions of new South African Arachnida. Annals of the Natal Museum. 687–711. 3.

Notes and References

1. 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. 348–382. 11. 10.1080/21560382.1900.9525972. William_Frederick_Purcell.
2. Raven. R. J.. 1985. The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182. 86. Robert_Raven.
3. Opatova. V.. etal. 2020. Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data. Systematic Biology. 69. 4. 701–702. 10.1093/sysbio/syz064. 31841157. free.
4. Gen. Lepthercus Purcell, 1902. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-11. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.