Genus Liphistius Schiodte, 1849

Type species.

Liphistius desultor Schiødte, 1849.

Diagnosis.

Liphistius can be distinguished from the heptathelid genera by the male palp possessing a tibial apophysis; the vulva modified into a pore plate or plate-like spermatheca; and the nest structure equipped with signal lines, unique silk lines radiating from the burrow entrance (Platnick and Sedgwick 1984; Xu et al. 2015a).

Distribution.

China (Yunnan Province), Indonesia (Sumatra), Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand.