Gen.
Dunstanoides Forster & Wilton, 1989 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01903 ]
N.B.: Dunstanoides Forster & Wilton, in Platnick, 1989b: 409, replacement name for Dunstania Forster & Wilton, 1973: 181 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05172] (type D. hesperis Forster & Wilton, 1973), preoccupied in fossil Heteroptera by Tillyard, 1916; treated as feminine in former versions of the WSC, but as no gender was stated in Platnick, 1989b it is masculine per ICZN Article 30.1.4.4; transferred from the Amphinectidae to the Desidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 606 - not explicitely but together with the whole family; transfer to the Amaurobiidae (Murphy & Roberts, 2015: viii) not sufficiently justified and is not accepted here.
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2022-05-09
2022-05-09
Described in
Platnick, 1989b: 409 (type Dunstania hesperis Forster & Wilton, 1973; gender masculine)
Platnick, 1989b: 409 (type Dunstania hesperis Forster & Wilton, 1973; gender masculine)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 9 | accepted |
Reference
Edit history
Platnick, N. I. (1989b). Advances in spider taxonomy 1981-1987: a supplement to Brignoli's A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 673 pp. 
| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-23 | Genus updated | (Old value) | |
| 2017-11-14 | Genus transferred to other family | Wheeler et al., 2017 | Dunstanoides Forster & Wilton, 1989 transferred to Desidae |