Vinathela Ono, 2000

Xu, Xin, Liu, Fengxiang, Chen, Jian, Ono, Hirotsugu, Li, Daiqin & Kuntner, Matjaz, 2015, A genus-level taxonomic review of primitively segmented spiders (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae), ZooKeys 488, pp. 121-151 : 135-138

Taxon classification Animalia Araneae Liphistiidae

Genus Vinathela Ono, 2000 Figures 49-55

Vinathela Ono, 2000, type species Heptathela cucphuongensis Ono, 1999; synonymized with Heptathela by Haupt, 2003a: P. 91. Herein removed from synonymy of Heptathela .

Abcathela Ono, 2000, type species Heptathela abca Ono, 1999, P. 149; placed in the synonymy of Heptathela by Haupt, 2003a, P. 71, 79; syn. n.

Nanthela Haupt, 2003a, type species Liphistius tonkinensis Bristowe in Bristowe and Millot 1933; placed in the synonymy of Heptathela by Schwendinger and Ono 2011, P. 601; syn. n.

Diagnosis.

Males of Vinathela differ from all other Heptathelinae genera by a wide proximal portion of the conductor, its distal portion being bent (Figure 50), and embolus with two peaks (Figures 49-50); females of Vinathela can be distinguished from all other Heptathelinae by three or four receptacular clusters situated at the anterior margin of bursa copulatrix, three of the same size or median pair small and lateral pair large (Figures 52-55).

Description.

Total length (excluding chelicerae) = 9-22 mm (N = 71); male palp with long conductor, proximal portion wide, distal portion bent (Figure 50); tegulum thick (Figures 50-51); spinose paracymbium short (Figures 49-51); female genitalia as diagnosed (Figures 52-55).

Species composition.

Vinathela abca (Ono, 1999), comb. n. (1♂7♀; male previously unknown), Vinathela cucphuongensis (Ono, 1999), comb. n. (2♂7♀; male previously unknown), Vinathela hongkong (Song & Wu, 1997), comb. n. (3♂19♀; female previously unknown), Vinathela hunanensis (Song & Haupt, 1984), comb. n., Vinathela tomokunii (Ono, 1997), comb. n. (6♀), Vinathela tonkinensis (Bristowe, 1933), comb. n. (1♂4♀; female previously unknown).

Distribution.

China (Hong Kong, Hunan and Jiangxi) and Vietnam.

Remarks.

Vinathela Ono, 2000 has priority over Nanthela Haupt, 2003a. We chose Vinathela Ono, 2000 over Abcathela Ono, 2000 (from the same publication) since the latter also contains species from northern China.