Family: Dipluridae Simon, 1889 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0005] Back

Gen. Diplura C. L. Koch, 1850 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00031 ]
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Thalerothele Bertkau, 1880a: 23 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05070] (type T. fasciata Bertkau, 1880 = Diplura lineata (Lucas, 1857)), Harmonicon F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 [but see below] (and thereby of Pseudohermachura Mello-Leitão, 1927c: 402 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05068] (type P. catharinensis Mello-Leitão, 1927) and Prosharmonicon Mello-Leitão, 1938b: 313 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05067] (type P. maculatum Mello-Leitão, 1938 = Diplura catharinensis (Mello-Leitão, 1927)) per Bücherl, 1962a: 261, contra Mello-Leitão, 1947b: 231, who considered the latter name a junior synonym of Parathalerothele Canals, 1931), Achetopus Tullgren, 1905: 14 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05060] (type A. erlandi Tullgren, 1905), Euharmonicon Mello-Leitão, 1920b: 60 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05063] (type E. studiosum Mello-Leitão, 1920), Evagrella Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 87 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05064] (type E. garbei Mello-Leitão, 1923) and Taunayella Mello-Leitão, 1923a: 97 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05069] (type T. taunayi Mello-Leitão, 1923) by Raven, 1985a: 74, but all species previously assigned to Diplura itself, except for the type species, D. macrura (C. L. Koch, 1841), and two others transferred to Rachias, were transferred by Raven (mostly without individual citations) to Linothele Karsch, 1879; Achetopus considered a senior synonym of Parathalerothele Canals, 1931b: 358 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05066] (type C. argentina Canals, 1931) by Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1968b: 185; Thalerothele considered a senior synonym of Melodeus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896: 758 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05653] (type M. sanguineus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896, per Bonnet, 1957: 2764) by Simon, 1903a: 963; not a senior synonym of Harmonicon F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 (Maréchal & Marty, 1998, contra Raven, 1985a), see note under Harmonicon.
Status: accepted
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2023-11-24
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C. L. Koch, 1850: 75 (type Mygale macrura C. L. Koch, 1841; gender feminine)
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18accepted
7synonym
1nomen dubium
Reference

Koch, C. L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Heft 5. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, 77 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561 download pdf

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