Family: Austrochilidae Zapfe, 1955 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0014]
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N.B.: Considered a senior synonym of Thaididae [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0145] and Hickmaniidae [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0144] by Forster, Platnick & Gray, 1987: 25, contra Lehtinen, 1967: 269 and Marples, 1968: 30. Thaididae was firstly used in spiders by Lehtinen, 1967: 269, but Thaididae Jousseaume, 1888 in Gastropoda has priority (contra Murphy & Roberts, 2015: ix, who regard wrongly 1880 [which is only the year of description of the genus Thaida Karsch, 1880] as the first year of description of Thaididae) (see also Tubbs, 1987). The topic is additionally discussed by Michalik & Wunderlich, 2017: 331.
Status: accepted
Last updated: 2021-11-11
Described in
Zapfe, 1955: 51
Counts
Number of valid genera: 2
Number of valid species: 9
Reference

Zapfe, H. (1955). Filogenia y funciĆ³n en Austrochilus manni Gertsch y Zapfe (Araneae-Hypochilidae). Trabajos del Laboratorio de Zoologia de la Universidad de Chile 2: 1-53. download pdf

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