Overview of genera (4)

Heptathela – Liphistius – Qiongthela – Ryuthela

Unaccepted genera (5)

Abcathela – Nanthela – Sinothela – Songthela – Vinathela

Primary references

• Thorell, T. 1869: On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature. Nova acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis (3), 7: 1–108. BHL [first availability, see p. 43]

selected references

• 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. 

• Xu, X., Liu, F-X., Kuntner, M. & Li, D-Q. 2017. Four new species of the primitive segmented spider genus Qiongthela from Hainan island, China (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae). ZooKeys 714: 1—11. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.714.19858 . Reference page. 

Links

• The World Spider Catalog, Version 15.5

additional links

• Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog [genera only, needs update]