Conothele Thorell, 1878

K, Sunil Jose, 2021, A new species of the trapdoor spider genus Conothele Thorell, 1878 (Araneae: Halonoproctidae) from Western Ghats, Kerala, India, Zoological Systematics 46 (3), pp. 258-263 : 259

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scientific name	Conothele Thorell, 1878
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Genus Conothele Thorell, 1878 View in CoL

Conothele Thorell, 1878: 303 View in CoL . Type specie s: Conothele malayana (Doleschall, 1859) View in CoL .

Diagnosis. The genus is distinguished from all other Halonoproctidae genera except Ummidia by the presence of a saddle depression on tibia III ( Fig. 2E View Figure 2 ). It differs from Ummidia by their burrowing habits ( Fig. 3 View Figure 3 ). The Conothele constructs a short, superficial burrow, which lies parallel to the surface of ground; whereas the Ummidia digs a several centimetres long burrow in the soil (Haupt, 2006). Moreover, Conothele is restricted to Oriental and Australian Regions, while Ummidia has restricted to New World and Mediterranean Regions ( Godwin et al., 2018)

References

Godwin, R. L., Opatova, V., Garrison, N. L., Hamilton, C. A., Bond, J. E. 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: 303 - 313. doi: 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2018.04.008.

Thorell, T. 1878. Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 13: 1 - 317.