Family: Desidae Pocock, 1895 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0039] Back

Gen. Desis Walckenaer, 1837 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01859 ]
N.B.: formerly placed in the Cybaeidae or in the Argyronetidae and transferred to the Desidae by Roth, 1967b: 5 and Lehtinen, 1967: 228; considered a senior synonym of Dandridgea White, 1849: 5[urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05761] (type D. dysderoides White, 1849 (preoccupied in Desis) = Desis marina (Hector, 1878)), of Robsonia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880a: 686 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05651] (type Argyroneta marina Hector, 1878) by Pocock, 1895b: 143, and of Paradesis Pocock, 1898f: 75 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05652] (type P. tubicola Pocock, 1898 = Desis formidabilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891)) by Pocock, 1902c: 98.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2022-10-13
Described in
Walckenaer, 1837: 610 (type Desis dysderoides Walckenaer, 1837; gender feminine; syn. of Desis maxillosa (Fabricius, 1793))
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Species counts
Counts Status
15accepted
7synonym
2nomen nudum
1nomen dubium
Reference

Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier. Roret, Paris, 682 pp., pl. 1-15. [plates in second pdf] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf download pdf

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