Latouchia

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Latouchia

| image = Latouchia.swinhoei.kume.female.-.tanikawa.jpg

| image_caption = Female Latouchia swinhoei

| authority = Pocock, 1901

| type_species = L. davidi

| type_species_authority = (Simon, 1886)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 26, see text

| synonyms = *Cronebergella Charitonov, 1946

| synonyms_ref = {{cite journal| last=Raven| first=R. J.| year=1985| title=The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics| journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| volume=182| page=151}}

}}

Latouchia is a genus of Asian mygalomorph spiders in the family Halonoproctidae, first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1901.{{cite journal| last=Pocock| first=R. I.| year=1901| title=On some new trap-door spiders from China.| journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London| pages=207–215| volume=70| issue=2| doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08540.x| url=https://zenodo.org/record/1977404}}

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.

Originally placed with the family Ctenizidae, the genus was moved to the Halonoproctidae in 2018.{{cite journal| last=Godwin| first=R. L.| display-authors=etal| year=2018| title=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| journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution| volume=126| page=307| doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.008| pmid=29656103| s2cid=4890400}}