Family: Uloboridae Thorell, 1869 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0098] Back

Gen. Zosis Walckenaer, 1841 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03372 ]
N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Uloborus Latreille, 1806 by Lehtinen, 1967: 277, rejecting Simon, 1892a: 214; considered a senior synonym of Orithya Blackwall, 1858b: 331 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04851] (type O. williamsi Blackwall, 1858 = Zosis geniculata (Olivier, 1789)) by Simon, 1892a: 214 (sub Uloborus), confirmed by Lehtinen, 1967: 277.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-11-06
Described in
Walckenaer, 1841: 231 (type Zosis caraibe Walckenaer, 1841; gender feminine (per Bonnet); syn. of Zosis geniculata (Olivier, 1789))
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Species counts
Counts Status
5accepted
15synonym
1nomen dubium
Reference

Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. [not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2022-03-23 Genus synonymy Simon, 1892a Orithya synonymized with Zosis