Abstract
A new genus of the spider family Macrothelidae Simon, 1892, Vacrothele Tang & Yang gen. nov. is described, along with two new species: V. pseudohunanica sp. nov., V. uncata sp. nov.. Three Macrothele species are transferred to the new genus: V. hunanica (Zhu & Song, 2000) comb. nov., V. digitata (Chen & Jiang, 2020) comb. nov., and V. palpator (Pocock, 1901) comb. nov..
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