Songthela

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Mesothelae

Familia: Liphistiidae
Genus: Songthela
Species: S. anhua – S. bristowei – S. ciliensis – S. goulouensis – S. hangzhouensis – S. huangyang – S. jianganensis – S. jinyun – S. liui – S. longbao – S. longhui – S. mangshan – S. pluma – S. pyriformis – S. sapana – S. serriformis – S. shei – S. shuyuan – S. tianzhu – S. wangerbao – S. wosanensis – S. xiangnan – S. xianningensis – S. yunnanensis – S. yuping – S. zhongpo
Name

Songthela Ono, 2000: 150

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Heptathela Kishida, 1923 by Xu et al., 2015: 140,

Type species: Heptathela hangzhouensis Chen, Zhang, & Zhu, 1981 original designation

gender: feminine
References
Primary references

Ono, H. 2000: Zoogeographic and taxonomic notes on spiders of the subfamily Heptathelinae (Araneae, Mesothelae, Liphistiidae). Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo), (33): 145–151. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Additional references

Chen, Z.Y., Liu, F.X., Li, D.Q. & Xu, X. 2022. Four new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Songthela (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae) from Chongqing Municipality, China. Zootaxa 5091(4): 546–558. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5091.4.2. Paywall. Reference page.
Chen, Z.Y., Li, D.Q., Li, D.Q. & Xu, X. 2021. Three new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Songthela (Araneae, Mesothelae) from Guizhou Province, China. ZooKeys 1037: 57–71. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1037.62916. Open access. Reference page.
Li, D-Q., Liu, F-Q., Li, D-Q. & Xu, X. 2020. Two new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Songthela from Hunan Province, China (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae). ZooKeys, 937: 1–19. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.937.50548 Open access Reference page.
Ono, H. 2002. Occurrence of a heptatheline spider (Araneae, Liphistiidae) in Lam Dong province, Vietnam. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo (A) 28: 119-122. Reference page.
Schwendinger, P.J & Ono, H. 2011. On two Heptathela species from southern Vietnam, with a discussion of copulatory organs and systematics of the Liphistiidae (Araneae: Mesothelae). Revue suisse de zoologie 118(4): 599–637. BHL Reference page. [see p. 601]
Xu, X., Liu, F.X., Chen, J., Ono, H., Li, D.Q. & Kuntner, M. 2015d. A genus-level taxonomic review of primitively segmented spiders (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae). ZooKeys 488: 121-151. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.488.8726. Open access. Reference page.
Zhang, Y., Chen, Z-Y., Li, D-Q. & Xu, X. 2023. Three new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Songthela (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae, Heptathelinae) from Hunan Province, China. Zookeys 1154ː 17–31. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1154.98273 Open access Reference page.

Songthela is a spider genus in the family Liphistiidae with species found in China and Vietnam.
Species list

As of January 2022 it contains twenty-three species:[1]

Songthela bristowei (Gertsch, 1967) — China
Songthela ciliensis (Yin, Tang & Xu, 2003) — China
Songthela goulouensis (Yin, 2001) — China
Songthela hangzhouensis (Chen, Zhang & Zhu, 1981) — China
Songthela huangyang Li, Liu, Li & Xu, 2020 — China
Songthela jianganensis (Chen, Gao, Zhu & Luo, 1988) — China
Songthela jinyun Chen, Liu, Li & Xu, 2022 — China
Songthela liui Chen, Li, Li & Xu, 2021 — China
Songthela longbao Chen, Liu, Li & Xu, 2022 — China
Songthela mangshan (Bao, Yin & Xu, 2003) — China
Songthela pluma Yu, Li & Zhang, 2018 — China
Songthela pyriformis Li, Liu & Xu, 2019 — China
Songthela sapana (Ono, 2010) — Vietnam
Songthela serriformis Chen, Liu, Li & Xu, 2022 — China
Songthela shei (Xu & Yin, 2001) — China
Songthela shuyuan Li, Liu & Xu, 2019 — China
Songthela tianzhu Chen, Li, Li & Xu, 2021 — China
Songthela wangerbao Chen, Liu, Li & Xu, 2022 — China
Songthela wosanensis (Wang & Jiao, 1995) — China
Songthela xiangnan Li, Liu, Li & Xu, 2020 — China
Songthela xianningensis (Yin, Tang, Zhao & Chen, 2002) — China
Songthela yunnanensis (Song & Haupt, 1984) — China
Songthela yuping Chen, Li, Li & Xu, 2021 — China