Synothele Explained

Synothele is a genus of Australian brushed trapdoor spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1908. The number of species in the genera was greatly expanded by Robert Raven in 1994.^[1]

Species

it contained twenty-four species from South Australia (SA) or Western Australia (WA):^[2]

• Synothele arrakis Raven, 1994 – WA
• Synothele boongaree Raven, 1994 – WA
• Synothele butleri Raven, 1994 – WA
• Synothele durokoppin Raven, 1994 – WA
• Synothele goongarrie Raven, 1994 – WA
• Synothele harveyi Churchill & Raven, 1994 – WA
• Synothele houstoni Raven, 1994 – WA
• Synothele howi Raven, 1994 – WA
• Synothele karara Raven, 1994 – WA
• Synothele koonalda Raven, 1994 – SA
• Synothele longbottomi Raven, 1994 – WA
• Synothele lowei Raven, 1994 – WA
• Synothele meadhunteri Raven, 1994 – SA, WA
• Synothele michaelseni Simon, 1908 (type) – WA
• Synothele moonabie Raven, 1994 – SA
• Synothele mullaloo Raven, 1994 – WA
• Synothele ooldea Raven, 1994 – SA
• Synothele parifusca (Main, 1954) – WA
• Synothele pectinata Raven, 1994 – WA
• Synothele rastelloides Raven, 1994 – WA
• Synothele rubripes Raven, 1994 – WA
• Synothele subquadrata Raven, 1994 – WA
• Synothele taurus Raven, 1994 – WA
• Synothele yundamindra Raven, 1994 – WA

Notes and References

1. Raven. R. J.. 1994. Mygalomorph spiders of the Barychelidae in Australia and the western Pacific. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 35. 291–706.
2. Gen. Synothele Simon, 1908. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-17. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.