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Lepthercus
Lepthercus is a genus of South African araneomorph spiders in the family Entypesidae. It was first described by William Frederick Purcell in 1902. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, then to the Entypesidae in 2020.
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Lepthercus engelbrechti
speciesLepthercus engelbrechti
Lepthercus sofiae
speciesLepthercus sofiae
Lepthercus dregei
speciesLepthercus dregei
Lepthercus rattrayi
speciesLepthercus rattrayi
Lepthercus confusus
speciesLepthercus confusus
Lepthercus kwazuluensis
speciesLepthercus kwazuluensis
Lepthercus lawrencei
speciesLepthercus lawrencei
Lepthercus mandelai
speciesLepthercus mandelai
Lepthercus dippenaarae
speciesLepthercus dippenaarae
Lepthercus haddadi
speciesLepthercus haddadi
Lepthercus filmeri
speciesLepthercus filmeri
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 421444.