Centrothele

Centrothele is a genus of South Pacific white tailed spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1873.^[2] Originally placed with the Corinnidae, it was moved to the Lamponidae in 2000.^[3]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains ten species found in Queensland, New South Wales, and one from New Guinea:^[1]

Centrothele cardell Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
Centrothele coalston Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
Centrothele fisher Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
Centrothele gordon Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
Centrothele kuranda Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
Centrothele lorata L. Koch, 1873 (type) – Australia (Queensland)
Centrothele mossman Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
Centrothele mutica (Simon, 1897) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), New Guinea
Centrothele nardi Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
Centrothele spurgeon Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)

^ ^a ^b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Centrothele L. Koch, 1873". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
^ Koch, L. (1873). Die Arachniden Australiens.
^ Platnick, N. I. (2000). "A relimitation and revision of the Australasian ground spider family Lamponidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 245: 173. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)245<0001:ARAROT>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/1592.

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