Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0099] Back

Gen. Theridion Walckenaer, 1805 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00725 ]
N.B.: this spelling (rather than the invalid emendations Theridium Leach, 1824 and Theridio Simon, 1864), with type species T. pictum (Walckenaer, 1802), on Official List of Generic Names in Zoology; see also Opinion 517 (ICZN, 1958) – also for the type species; considered a senior synonym of Allotheridion Archer, 1946: 41 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04614] (type T. murarium Emerton, 1882; described as a subgenus of T. but elevated to genus by Archer, 1950: 18) by Levi, 1957a: 19, of Phaetoticus Simon, 1894a: 552 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05707] (type P. modestus Simon, 1894) by Levi & Levi, 1962: 26, of Billima Simon, 1908d: 430 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05706] (type B. attrita Simon, 1908; transferred from the Theridiosomatidae) by Levi, 1968c: 340, and of Liger O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896a: 210 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01058] (type L. incompta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) by Miller, 2007a: 247 (contra Levi & Levi, 1962: 301, who placed that genus in the Linyphiidae); subgenera Cryptachaea Archer, 1946 and Parasteatoda Archer, 1946 now considered valid genera, subgenus Tholocco Archer, 1946 belongs to Thymoites Keyserling, 1884; not a senior synonym of Coleosoma O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 (Bryant, 1944: 51), Anelosimus Simon, 1891 (Levi, 1956b: 412), Chrysso O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 (Levi, 1957c: 59), Phyllonethis Thorell, 1869, Sudabe Karsch, 1879, Faitidus Keyserling, 1884 or Hubba O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897 (Levi & Levi, 1962: 21-29), of Nesticodes Archer, 1950, Paidiscura Archer, 1950, or Rugathodes Archer, 1950 (Wunderlich, 1987a: 213), or of Wamba O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 (removed from S of Crustulina Menge, 1868 by Levi, 1959b: 112), Allodipoena Bryant, 1947 or Chindellum Archer, 1950 (Wunderlich, 1995n: 611, contra Levi, 1957a: 19); for a rejected transfer of T. virgulatum Nicolet, 1849, see Lycosa fernandezi; see note under Neottiura.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-03-21
Described in
Walckenaer, 1805: 72 (type Aranea picta Walckenaer, 1802; gender neuter)
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Species counts
Counts Status
582accepted
67synonym
5nomen nudum
56nomen dubium
6homonym replaced
Reference

Walckenaer, C. A. (1805). Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions. Dentu, Paris, 88 pp. download pdf

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