Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0010] Back

Gen. Selenocosmia Ausserer, 1871 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00277 ]
N.B.: the resurrection of Phlogius Simon, 1887d: 195 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05129] by Schmidt, 1995k: 9 was rejected by Raven, 2000a: 570, who also placed Chilocosmia Schmidt & von Wirth, 1992b: 9 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04825] (type C. dichromata Schmidt & von Wirth, 1992) and Selenopelma Schmidt & Krause, 1995a: 22 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04828] (type S. kovariki Schmidt & Krause, 1995) as junior synonyms (see also Schmidt, 2002c: 3, Schmidt, 2015a, Schmidt, 2015c); West, Nunn & Hogg, 2012: 23 placed the type species of Chilocosmia (but not the other species) in Orphnaecus instead; Phlogius is a replacement name for Phrictus L. Koch, 1874a: 488 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05128] (type P. crassipes L. Koch, 1874), preoccupied in Hemiptera by Spinola, 1839.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2023-04-17
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Ausserer, 1871a: 204 (type Mygale javanensis Walckenaer, 1837; gender feminine)
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Counts Status
40accepted
3synonym
2nomen dubium
Reference

Ausserer, A. (1871a). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 21: 117-224, pl. 1. [incl. unpubl. manuscript by Doleschall] download pdf

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