Cethegoides patricki Wunderlich 2017 (funnel-web tarantula)

Arachnida - Araneae - Dipluridae

Full reference: J. Wunderlich. 2017. New and rare fossil spiders (Araneae) in mid Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Burma), including the description of new extinct families of the suborders Mesothelae and Opisthothelae, as well as notes on the taxonomy, the evolution and the biogeography of the Mesothelae. Ten Papers on Fossil and Extant Spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 10:72-279

Belongs to Cethegoides according to J. Wunderlich 2017

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: F2889/BU/CJW, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Wunderlich coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Wunderlich coll)

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