Family: Palpimanidae Thorell, 1869 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0023] Back
Gen.
Palpimanus Dufour, 1820 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00616 ]
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Platyscelum Audouin, 1826: 167 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06079] (type P. savignyi Audouin, 1826 = Palpimanus gibbulus Dufour, 1820) and of its superflous replacement name Chersis Savigny, in Latreille, 1831: 542 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06080] by Lucas, 1846: 135; another superfluous replacement name is Eumechanuns Gistel, 1848: X [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06081]; Platyscelum was thought to be preoccupied in Coleoptera by Platyscelis Latreille, 1818.
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2024-10-31
2024-10-31
Described in
Dufour, 1820a: 364 (type Palpimanus gibbulus Dufour, 1820; gender masculine)
Dufour, 1820a: 364 (type Palpimanus gibbulus Dufour, 1820; gender masculine)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 43 | accepted |
| 2 | synonym |
| 1 | nomen dubium |
Reference
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Dufour, L. (1820a). Description de six arachnides nouvelles. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 4: 355-366. 
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