Cheiracanthiidae Wagner, 1887

Family |   ACCEPTED
N.B.: Eutichuridae elevated to family status and relimited by Ramírez, 2014: 340; firstly mentioned as Eutichureae Kishida, 1936d: 37, so Eutichurinae Lehtinen, 1967: 312 is a synonym. Eutichuridae synonymyzed with Cheiracanthiidae Wagner, 1887 (syn. Chiracanthiidae Ono, 2009a: 464) by Ono & Ogata, 2018: 611, contra Ramírez, 2014: 341. The original spelling Cheiracantidae by Wagner, 1887: 105 needs to be emended according to ICZN Art. 32.5.3.1. (correction of the suffix from -dae to -idae) and Art. 32.5.3.3 (correction of the stem from Cheiracanti- to Cheiracanthi-); the correct, available spelling  according to ICZN Art. 11.7.1.3 therefore is Cheiracanthiidae, which according to ICZN Art. 55.4. is not a homonym of the family group name Cheiracanthidae in use in other animal groups. Wagner's name had been in disuse and at some point could have qualified as a nomen oblitum; however, since the resurrection of the name by Marusik & Kovblyuk, 2011: 126, the name has been widely used in the arachnological literature that a retroactive reversal of precedence according to ICZN Art. 23.9. is no longer possible, as the condition of Art. 23.9.1.1. (no use as a valid name after 1899) is no longer fulfilled.
Gen. Eutittha Thorell, 1878 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04660
type Eutittha insulana Thorell, 1878; gender feminine
N.B.: removed from synonymy with Cheiracanthium C. L. Koch, 1839 by Esyunin & Zamani, 2020: 1296 (rejecting Simon, 1897a: 79, 87), but again considered a synonym of Cheiracanthium by Raven & Hebron, 2024: 84; Esyunin & Zamani, 2020: 1305 ff. discuss the other species once placed in Eutittha, see Cheiracanthium.

Transferred to other genera:

Eutittha brevicalcarata (L. Koch, 1873) -- see Cheiracanthium

Eutittha diversa (L. Koch, 1873) -- see Cheiracanthium

Eutittha excavata (Rainbow, 1920) -- see Cheiracanthium

Eutittha gilva (L. Koch, 1873) -- see Cheiracanthium

Eutittha hainanensis Li & Zhang, 2024 -- see Cheiracanthium

Eutittha insulana Thorell, 1878 -- see Cheiracanthium

Eutittha lanceolata (Chrysanthus, 1967) -- see Cheiracanthium

Eutittha lompobattangi (Merian, 1911) -- see Cheiracanthium

Eutittha marplesi (Chrysanthus, 1967) -- see Cheiracanthium

Eutittha stratiotica (L. Koch, 1873) -- see Cheiracanthium

Eutittha submordax (Zhang, Zhu & Hu, 1993) -- see Cheiracanthium


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