Macrothelidae

Macrothelidae; Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Female Macrothele gigas
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Clade:	Avicularioidea
Family:	Macrothelidae; Simon, 1892
Genera
	Macrothele; Vacrothele; †Promacrothele;

Macrothelidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders, split off from the family Hexathelidae in 2018. It contains three genera, Macrothele,^[1] Vacrothele^[2] and the extinct Promacrothele.^[3]

Genera

Macrothele Ausserer, 1871 Europe, Africa, Asia
Vacrothele China
Promacrothele Burmese amber, Myanmar, mid Cretaceous.

References

^ ^a ^b "Family Macrothelidae Simon,1892", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2018-05-15
ISSN 1175-5334
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doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105514
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Taxon identifiers
Macrothelidae

Wikidata: Q53536229

BOLD: 941103

CoL: CBN

GBIF: 10159729

IRMNG: 11915111

NCBI: 2822726

Open Tree of Life: 7688605

WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0128

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[WSC_f125-1] "Family Macrothelidae Simon,1892", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2018-05-15

[2] ISSN 1175-5334
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[3] :10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105514
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