Vacrothele Tang & Yang 2022
Creators: name: Zheng, Yu-Lin
name: Zhao, Yu
name: Yang, Zi-Zhong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Macrothelidae
Vacrothele

description: Key to the known species of the genus Vacrothele Tang & Yang, 2022
1. Males ................................................................................................................................................. 2
– Females ............................................................................................................................................. 8
2. Palpal tibia with 6 dorsal spines ........................ V. pseudohunanica Tang, Wu, Zhao & Yang, 2022
– Palpal tibia more than 6 dorsal spines .............................................................................................. 3
3. Tibia II with 4 ventral spines. ........................................................................ V. fuyuanensis sp. nov.
– Tibia II more than with 4 ventral spines ........................................................................................... 4
4. Embolus longer (5.43) ................................................................................ V. jiangkouensis sp. nov.
– Embolus relatively short ................................................................................................................... 5
5. Embolus curved dorsally first, then ventrally .......................................... V. palpator (Pocock, 1901)
– Embolus curved ventrally first, then dorsally ................................................................................... 3
6. Body smaller (9.4 mm); tibia I with seven spines (four ventral, two apical, one median spine) ....... ...................................................................... V. taiwanensis (Shimojana & Haupt, 1998) comb. nov.
– Body larger ....................................................................................................................................... 7
7. Tibia I with 9 spines (five ventral, three prolateral, one retrolateral spine) ........................................ ...................................................................................................... V. yunnanica (Zhu & Song, 2000)
– Tibia I with 5 ventral spines .............................................................................. V. baiseensis sp. nov.
8. Receptacula directed forward, turning laterally, and then inward and turning anteriorly, somewhat S-shaped ......................................................................................... V. hunanica (Zhu & Song, 2000)
– Receptacula directed anteriorly, turning laterally, then dorsally, finally medially ............................ 9
9. Receptacula G-shaped .............................................................. V. emei (Lin & Li, 2021) comb. nov.
– Receptacula non G-shaped ............................................................................................................. 10
10. Copulatory aperture thicker but joint of the copulatory aperture and spermatheca very thin ............ ............................................................................................ V. uncata Tang, Wu, Zhao & Yang, 2022
– Receptacula short and finger-like ......................................... V. digitata (Chen, Jiang & Yang, 2020)
description: Published as part of Zheng, Yu-Lin, Zhao, Yu & Yang, Zi-Zhong, 2025, Description of three new species of genus Vacrothele (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Macrothelidae) from China with notes on two taxonomic amendments, pp. 92-107 in European Journal of Taxonomy 976 (1) on pages 94-95, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.976.2779, http://zenodo.org/record/14834010