Family: Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0032] Back
Gen.
Leucognatha Wunderlich, 1992 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04813 ]
N.B.: junior synonym of Sancus Tullgren, 1910: 152 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01409] (type S. bilineatus Tullgren, 1910), preoccupied in Lepidoptera by de Nicéville, 1891; considered a senior synonym of Leucognatha Wunderlich, 1992a: 359 by Kuntner & Álvarez-Padilla, 2006: 118; thus Leucognatha is the valid name of the genus (Ceccolini & Cianferoni, 2022: 15).
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2022-03-15
2022-03-15
Described in
Wunderlich, 1992a: 359 (type Leucognatha acoreensis Wunderlich, 1992; gender feminine)
Wunderlich, 1992a: 359 (type Leucognatha acoreensis Wunderlich, 1992; gender feminine)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 2 | accepted |
Reference
Edit history
Wunderlich, J. (1992a). Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beiträge zur Araneologie 1: 1-619. 
| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-15 | Genus synonymy | Ceccolini & Cianferoni, 2022 | Sancus synonymized with Leucognatha |
| 2022-03-15 | Genus updated | Ceccolini & Cianferoni, 2022 | Removed synonymy (Old value) |