Family: Phrurolithidae Banks, 1892 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0118] Back
Gen.
Scotinella Banks, 1911 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02206 ]
N.B.: transferred from the Liocranidae to the Corinnidae by Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2002: 265, to the Phrurolithidae by Ramírez, 2014: 343; considered a senior synonym of Phruronellus Chamberlin, 1921a: 69 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02201] (type Phrurolithus formica Banks, 1895) by Platnick & Chamé-Vázquez, 2024: 305 (confirming Levi, 1951: 27 and Roth, 1985: 10); not a junior synonym of Phrurolithus C. L. Koch, 1839 (Kaston, 1972a, and more recent authors, contra Lehtinen, 1967: 263), see note under Phrurolithus.
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2024-03-24
2024-03-24
Described in
Banks, 1911: 442 (type Scotinella pallida Banks, 1911; gender feminine)
Banks, 1911: 442 (type Scotinella pallida Banks, 1911; gender feminine)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 44 | accepted |
| 5 | synonym |
Reference
Edit history
Banks, N. (1911). Some Arachnida from North Carolina. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 63: 440-456. 
| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-24 | Genus synonymy | Platnick & Chamé-Vázquez, 2024 | Phruronellus synonymized with Scotinella |
| 2014-07-25 | Genus transferred to other family | Ramírez, 2014 | Scotinella Banks, 1911 transferred to Phrurolithidae |