Latouchia

Latouchia is a genus of Asian mygalomorph spiders in the family Halonoproctidae, first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1901.^[3] The genus is presumably named in honour of John David Digues La Touche (who is named as "J. de La Touche" alongside "C. B. Rickett") as co-collector of the first described species Latouchia fossoria.

Latouchia
Female Latouchia swinhoei
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Halonoproctidae
Genus:	Latouchia Pocock, 1901[1]
Type species
L. davidi (Simon, 1886)
Species
26, see text
Synonyms[1][2]
Cronebergella Charitonov, 1946

Originally placed with the family Ctenizidae, the genus was moved to the Halonoproctidae in 2018.^[4]

Species

As of January 2023^[update] it contains 26 species from India to Southeast Asia:^[1]

• Latouchia bachmaensis Ono, 2010 – Vietnam
• Latouchia cornuta Song, Qiu & Zheng, 1983 – China
• Latouchia cryptica (Simon, 1897) – India
• Latouchia cunicularia (Simon, 1886) – Vietnam
• Latouchia davidi (Simon, 1886) (type) – China
• Latouchia formosensis Kayashima, 1943 – Taiwan
  • Latouchia f. smithi Tso, Haupt & Zhu, 2003 – Taiwan
• Latouchia fossoria Pocock, 1901 – China
• Latouchia huberi Decae, 2019 – Vietnam
• Latouchia hunanensis Xu, Yin & Bao, 2002 – China
• Latouchia hyla Haupt & Shimojana, 2001 – Japan (Ryukyu Is.)
• Latouchia incerta Decae, Schwendinger & Hongpadharakiree, 2021 – Thailand
• Latouchia japonica Strand, 1910 – Japan
• Latouchia kitabensis (Charitonov, 1946) – Central Asia
• Latouchia maculosa Decae, Schwendinger & Hongpadharakiree, 2021 – Thailand
• Latouchia parameleomene Haupt & Shimojana, 2001 – Japan (Okinawa)
• Latouchia pavlovi Schenkel, 1953 – China
• Latouchia rufa Zhang & Wang, 2021 – China
• Latouchia schwendingeri Decae, 2019 – Vietnam
• Latouchia stridulans Decae, 2019 – Vietnam
• Latouchia swinhoei Pocock, 1901 – Japan (Ryukyu Is.)
• Latouchia typica (Kishida, 1913) – China, Japan
• Latouchia vinhiensis Schenkel, 1963 – China
• Latouchia wenruni (Lin & Li, 2023) – China (Hainan)
• Latouchia yejiei Zhang & Wang, 2021 – China (Hainan)
• Latouchia yuanjingae (Lin & Li, 2022) – China (Hainan)

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2021). "Gen. Latouchia Pocock, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
2. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 151.
3. Pocock, R. I. (1901). "On some new trap-door spiders from China". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 70 (2): 207–215. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08540.x.
4. Godwin, R. L.; et al. (2018). "Phylogeny of a cosmopolitan family of morphologically conserved trapdoor spiders (Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae) using Anchored Hybrid Enrichment, with a description of the family, Halonoproctidae Pocock 1901". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 126: 307. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.008. PMID 29656103. S2CID 4890400.