Family: Philodromidae Thorell, 1869 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0057] Back

Gen. Philodromus Walckenaer, 1826 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02615 ]
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Artanes Thorell, 1869: 36 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05635] (replacement name for Artamus C. L. Koch, 1837b: 27 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05634] (preoccupied in Aves by Vieillot, 1816, type Aranea laevipes Linnaeus, 1758 = Philodromus margaritatus (Clerck, 1757)) and of Opitis L. Koch, 1875a: 611 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05636] (type O. plana L. Koch, 1875) by Simon, 1895a: 1063; considered a senior synonym of Philodromoides Scheffer, 1904a: 305 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05633] (type P. pratariae Scheffer, 1904) by Gertsch, in Schick, 1965: 37, 62 and of Horodromoides Gertsch, 1933b: 9 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05632] (type H. validus Gertsch, 1933) by Dondale & Redner, 1975b: 370; Logunov, 1997b and Logunov & Kunt, 2010 followed Wunderlich in recognizing Artanes, but as Muster, 2009a demonstrated, this unjustified elevation of an automorphic species group would render Philodromus paraphyletic and is therefore here rejected (as it was also by Muster & Van Keer, 2010: 65); similarly, various genera and placements by Wunderlich, 2012a, are based neither on cladistic analysis nor an adequate taxon sample, and are not followed here, including the erection of the new generic names Emargidromus Wunderlich, 2012a: 34 (type Aranea emarginata Schrank, 1803), Philodromimus Wunderlich, 2012a: 36 (type Philodromus dispar Walckenaer, 1826) and Pulchellodromus as well as the validating of Tibellomimus Gertsch, 1933b: 7 (type T. lineatus Gertsch, 1933 = Philodromus bilineatus Bryant, 1933); Breitling, 2019b: 22 regards Artanes, Emargidromus, Philodromimus, Pulchellodromus and Tibellomimus as subgenera of Philodromus (based mainly on COI, see FAQ 7); the separation of Pulchellodromus Wunderlich, 2012a: 38 was confirmed by Kastrygina & Kovblyuk, 2014: 28; Rhysodromus Schick, 1965 was removed from the synonym by Kastrygina & Kovblyuk, 2016: 284 (contra Dondale & Redner, 1975b: 370-372).
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-03-25
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Walckenaer, 1826: 86 (type Araneus aureolus Clerck, 1757; gender masculine; type fixed by Thorell, 1870b: 181)
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Species counts
Counts Status
216accepted
44synonym
3nomen nudum
21nomen dubium
Reference

Walckenaer, C. A. (1826). Aranéides. In: Faune française ou histoire naturelle générale et particulière des animaux qui se trouvent en France, constamment ou passagèrement, à la surface du sol, dans les eaux qui le baignent et dans le littoral des mers qui le bornent par Viellot, Desmarrey, Ducrotoy, Audinet, Lepelletier et Walckenaer. Paris, livr. 11-12: 1-96. download pdf

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