Latouchia
Genus of spiders
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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 | |
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| Female Latouchia swinhoei | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
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26, see text | |
| Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Originally placed with the family Ctenizidae, the genus was moved to the Halonoproctidae in 2018.[4]
Species
As of January 2025,[update] it contains 30 species and 1 subspecies from India to Southeast Asia:[1]
- Latouchia bachmaensis Ono, 2010 – Vietnam
- Latouchia calcicola Hao, Yu & Zhang, 2025 – China (Hainan)
- 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 Kishida, 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 jinyun Hao, Yu & Zhang, 2025 – China
- Latouchia kitabensis (Charitonov, 1946) – Central Asia
- Latouchia linmufu Hao, Yu & Zhang, 2025 – China
- 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 wenchuan Hao, Yu & Zhang, 2025 – China
- Latouchia wenruni Lin & Li, 2023 – China (Hainan)
- Latouchia yaoi Hao, Yu & Zhang, 2025 – China
- Latouchia yejiei Zhang & Wang, 2021 – China (Hainan)
- Latouchia yuanjingae Lin & Li, 2022 – China (Hainan)