
Conothele is a genus of mygalomorph spiders in the family Halonoproctidae, first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the Halonoproctidae in 2018.
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Conothele is a genus of mygalomorph spiders in the family Halonoproctidae, first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the Halonoproctidae in 2018.
==Species== it contains 38 species: Conothele arboricola Pocock, 1899 – Papua New Guinea (New Britain) Conothele baisha H. Liu, Xu, Zhang, F. Liu & Li, 2019 – China (Hainan) Conothele baiyunensis X. Xu, C. Xu & Liu, 2017 – China Conothele baoting H. Liu, Xu, Zhang, F. Liu & Li, 2019 – China (Hainan) Conothele birmanica Thorell, 1887 – Myanmar Conothele cambridgei Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia (Sumatra) Conothele cangshan Yang & Xu, 2018 – China Conothele chinnarensis Sunil Jose, 2021 – India Conothele daxinensis X. Xu, C. Xu & Liu, 2017 – China Conothele deqin Yang & Xu, 2018 – China Conothele doleschalli Thorell, 1881 – Australia (Queensland) Conothele ferox Strand, 1913 – New Guinea Conothele fragaria (Dönitz, 1887) – Japan Conothele giganticus Siliwal & Raven, 2015 – India Conothele gressitti (Roewer, 1963) – Micronesia Conothele hebredisiana Berland, 1938 – Vanuatu Conothele isan Decae, Schwendinger & Hongpadharakiree, 2021 – Thailand Conothele jinggangshan H. Liu, Xu, Zhang, F. Liu & Li, 2019 – China Conothele khunthokhanbi Kananbala, Bhubaneshwari & Siliwal, 2015 – India Conothele lampra (Chamberlin, 1917) – USA? Conothele limatior Kulczyński, 1908 – New Guinea Conothele linzhi H. Liu, Xu, Zhang, F. Liu & Li, 2019 – China Conothele maculosa Yu, Yang & Zhang, 2024 – China Conothele malayana (Doleschall, 1859) (type) – Indonesia (Moluccas), New Guinea, Australia Conothele martensi Decae, Schwendinger & Hongpadharakiree, 2021 – Thailand Conothele medoga Zhang & Yu, 2021 – China Conothele mussoorie Tripathi & Kadam, 2025 – India Conothele nigriceps Pocock, 1898 – Solomon Is. Conothele ogalei Sanap, Pawar, Joglekar & Khandekar, 2022 – India Conothele purvaghati Mirza, 2022 – India Conothele sidiechongensis X. Xu, C. Xu & Liu, 2017 – China, Laos Conothele spinosa Hogg, 1914 – New Guinea Conothele taiwanensis (Tso, Haupt & Zhu, 2003) – Taiwan Conothele trachypus Kulczyński, 1908 – Papua New Guinea (New Britain) Conothele truncicola Saaristo, 2002 – Seychelles Conothele vali Siliwal, Nair, Molur & Raven, 2009 – India Conothele varvarti Siliwal, Nair, Molur & Raven, 2009 – India Conothele yundingensis X. Xu, C. Xu & Liu, 2017 – China
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