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Linothele
Linothele is a genus of curtain web spiders that was first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1879. All but one of the described species are from South America (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela) and adjacent Panama. The exception is L. septentrionalis from the far-away Bahamas, although it has certain features that suggest it may belong in another genus.
Linothele females are stouter and tend to be more conspicuously colored than males. They make relatively complex webs that in most species are on or near the ground, mudbanks or rock walls (a few are arboreal), with females spending most of their life in a tunnel-like retreat. The male may wander and often inhabits a smaller web near a female's. The webs of Linothele species are commonly co-inhabited by tiny kleptoparasitic spiders of the genus Mysmenopsis.
28 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Colombian Funnel Web Spider
speciesLinothele sericata
Linothele longicauda
speciesLinothele longicauda
Linothele fallax
speciesLinothele fallax
Linothele paulistana
speciesLinothele paulistana
Linothele darien
speciesLinothele darien
Linothele gaujoni
speciesLinothele gaujoni
Linothele uniformis
speciesLinothele uniformis
Linothele curvitarsis
speciesLinothele curvitarsis
Linothele cavicola
speciesLinothele cavicola
Linothele macrothelifera
speciesLinothele macrothelifera
Linothele jelskii
speciesLinothele jelskii
Linothele quori
speciesLinothele quori
Linothele mubii
speciesLinothele mubii
Linothele monticolens
speciesLinothele monticolens
Linothele pukachumpi
speciesLinothele pukachumpi
Linothele tsachilas
speciesLinothele tsachilas
Linothele yanachanka
speciesLinothele yanachanka
Linothele zaia
speciesLinothele zaia
Linothele sexfasciata
speciesLinothele sexfasciata
Linothele cristata
speciesLinothele cristata
Linothele septentrionalis
speciesLinothele septentrionalis
Linothele spinosa
speciesLinothele spinosa
Linothele guarato
speciesLinothele guarato
Linothele ixbalanquei
speciesLinothele ixbalanquei
Linothele hunahpui
speciesLinothele hunahpui
Linothele montana
speciesLinothele montana
Linothele sanuk
speciesLinothele sanuk
Linothele cornigera
speciesLinothele cornigera
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 362637.