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Latouchia
Female Latouchia swinhoei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Halonoproctidae
Genus: Latouchia
Pocock, 1901 [1]
Type species
L. davidi
( Simon, 1886)
Species

26, see text

Synonyms [1] [2]

Latouchia is a genus of Asian mygalomorph spiders in the family Halonoproctidae, first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1901. [3] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the Halonoproctidae in 2018. [4]

Species

As of January 2023 it contains 26 species from India to Southeast Asia: [1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2021). "Gen. Latouchia Pocock, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi: 10.24436/2. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  2. ^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 151.
  3. ^ Pocock, R. I. (1901). "On some new trap-door spiders from China". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 70 (2): 207–215. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08540.x.
  4. ^ Godwin, R. L.; et al. (2018). "Phylogeny of a cosmopolitan family of morphologically conserved trapdoor spiders (Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae) using Anchored Hybrid Enrichment, with a description of the family, Halonoproctidae Pocock 1901". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 126: 307. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.008. PMID  29656103. S2CID  4890400.