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

Gen. Metaltella Mello-Leitão, 1931 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01915 ]
N.B.: transferred from the Dictynidae to the Amaurobiidae by Lehtinen, 1967, to Amphinectidae by Davies, 1998a: 242 and to Desidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 606; considered a senior synonym of Aebutinoides Mello-Leitão, 1943c: 101 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05169] (type A. tigrinus Mello-Leitão, 1943) (transferred from the Dictynidae) by Lehtinen, 1967: 209 and of Exlinea Lehtinen, 1967: 234 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05173] (type Clubiona rorulenta Nicolet, 1849) by Leech, 1971: 26; transfer of Metaltella simoni to Amaurobiidae (Murphy & Roberts, 2015: ix) not sufficiently justified and is not accepted here, furthermore is it not the type species of the genus.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-03-11
Described in
Mello-Leitão, 1931c: 94 (type Amaurobius iheringi Keyserling, 1891; gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
6accepted
6synonym
Reference

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1931c). Notas sobre arachnidos argentinos. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 3: 83-97. download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2017-11-14 Genus transferred to other family Wheeler et al., 2017 Metaltella Mello-Leitão, 1931 transferred to Desidae