Lepthercus

Lepthercus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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
11, see text

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]

Species

As of June 2020^[update] it contains eleven species, found in South Africa:[1]

• 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

References

1. "Gen. Lepthercus Purcell, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
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.
3. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 86.
4. 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.