Latouchia

Latouchia
Female Latouchia swinhoei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Halonoproctidae
Genus: Latouchia
Pocock, 1901
Type species
L. davidi
(Simon, 1886)
Species

26, see text

Synonyms

Latouchia is a genus of Asian mygalomorph spiders in the family Halonoproctidae, first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1901. The genus is presumably named in honour of John David Digues La Touche (who is named as "J. de La Touche" alongside "C. B. Rickett") as co-collector of the first described species Latouchia fossoria.

Originally placed with the family Ctenizidae, the genus was moved to the Halonoproctidae in 2018.

Species

As of January 2025, it contains 30 species and 1 subspecies from India to Southeast Asia:

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Latouchia Pocock, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 2025. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  2. ↑ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 151.
  3. ↑ Pocock, R. I. (1901). "On some new trap-door spiders from China". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 70 (2): 207–215. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08540.x.
  4. ↑ Godwin, R. L.; et al. (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: 307. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.008. PMID 29656103. S2CID 4890400.