Lepthercus

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Lepthercus

| authority = Purcell, 1902

| type_species = L. dregei

| type_species_authority = Purcell, 1902

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 11, see text

}}

Lepthercus is a genus of South African mygalomorph spiders in the family Entypesidae. It was first described by William Frederick Purcell in 1902.{{cite journal| last=Purcell| first=W. F.| year=1902| title=New South African trap-door spiders of the family Ctenizidae in the collection of the South African Museum| journal=Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society| pages=348–382| volume=11| doi=10.1080/21560382.1900.9525972| url=https://zenodo.org/record/1642179| author-link=William_Frederick_Purcell}} Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was transferred to the Nemesiidae in 1985,{{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=86| author-link=Robert_Raven}} then to the Entypesidae in 2020.{{cite journal| last=Opatova| first=V.| display-authors=etal| year=2020| title=Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data| journal=Systematic Biology| volume=69| issue=4| pages=701–702| doi=10.1093/sysbio/syz064| pmid=31841157| doi-access=free}}