Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0102] Back

Gen. Witica O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01576 ]
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Physiola Simon, 1895a: 784 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05547] (type P. nigrans Simon, 1895 = Witica crassicauda (Keyserling, 1865)) by Simon, 1898a: 207, of Bion brevis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898a: 244 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06047] (type B. brevis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 = Witica crassicauda (Keyserling, 1865)) by Simon, 1903a: 1003 and of Salassina Simon, 1895a: 784 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05316] (type Epeira crassicauda Keyserling, 1865) by Levi, 1986b: 37 (removed from the synonymy with Edricus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1890); Salassina was considered a junior synonym of Salassia Gétaz, 1893: 105 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05546] (type S. tricuspis Gétaz, 1893 = Witica crassicauda (Keyserling, 1865) and preoccupied in Gastropoda by Folin, 1871) by Simon, 1895a: 784.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2023-06-30
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O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895a: 160 (type Witica talis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895; gender masculine (see Bonnet, 1959: 4827); syn. of Witica crassicauda (Keyserling, 1865))
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2accepted
4synonym
1nomen dubium
Reference

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1895a). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 145-160. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf

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