Conothele Thorell, 1878

Xu, Xin, Xu, Chen, Liu, Fengxiang, Zhang, Zengtao & Li, Daiqin, 2017, Four new species of the trapdoor spider genus Conothele Thorell, 1878 from Mainland China and Laos (Araneae, Ctenizidae), ZooKeys 643, pp. 63-74 : 65

Genus Conothele Thorell, 1878

Type.

Conothele malayana (Doleschall, 1859): 5, pl. 5, figure 8 (described female).

Diagnosis.

The genus Conothele can be distinguished from the genus Ummidia by their burrowing habits, the former constructs a short, parallel to the surface of ground, superficial burrow, whereas the latter digs a several centimeters long burrow in the soil ( Haupt 2006). Moreover, Conothele distributes in the Oriental and Australian regions, whereas Ummidia is only found from New World and the Mediterranean region ( Haupt 2006; Siliwal et al. 2009; World Spider Catalog 2016).