Family: Pholcidae C. L. Koch, 1850 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0017] Back

Gen. Mecolaesthus Simon, 1893 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00396 ]
N.B.: spelled as Mecolaesthus by Simon, 1893e: 320 (October 1893) and as Mecoloesthus by Simon, 1893a (November 1893); considered a senior synonym of Venezuela Koçak & Kemal, 2008a: 4 [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidergen:03848], Ayomania González-Sponga, 2005: 108 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05076], Falconia González-Sponga, 2003: 94 [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidergen:03556], Carbonaria González-Sponga, 2009a: 2 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03908] (type C. cordiformis González-Sponga, 2009), Maimire González-Sponga, 2009a: 4 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03909] (type M. tuberculosa González-Sponga, 2009), Moraia González-Sponga, 2011b: 43 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04065] (type M. niquitanus González-Sponga, 2011), Nasuta González-Sponga, 2009a: 6 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03910] (type N. grandis González-Sponga, 2009), Sanluisi González-Sponga, 2003: 100 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03559] (type S. puntiaguda González-Sponga, 2003) by Huber, Colmenares & Ramírez, 2014: 417; Venezuela and Ayomania are replacement names for Falconia (type F. multidenticulata González-Sponga, 2003, preoccupied in Hemiptera by Distant, 1884); considered a senior synonym of Queliceria González-Sponga, 2003: 96 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03558] (type Q. discrepantis González-Sponga, 2003) by Huber & Villarreal, 2020: 71.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2023-03-16
Described in
Simon, 1893e: 320 (type Mecolaesthus longissimus Simon, 1893; gender masculine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
40accepted
Reference

Simon, E. (1893e). Études arachnologiques. 25e Mémoire. XL. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 62: 299-330. download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2020-10-07 Genus synonymy Huber & Villarreal, 2020 Queliceria synonymized with Mecolaesthus
2014-09-15 Genus synonymy Huber, Colmenares & Ramírez, 2014 Sanluisi synonymized with Mecolaesthus
2014-09-15 Genus synonymy Huber, Colmenares & Ramírez, 2014 Nasuta synonymized with Mecolaesthus
2014-09-15 Genus synonymy Huber, Colmenares & Ramírez, 2014 Moraia synonymized with Mecolaesthus
2014-09-15 Genus synonymy Huber, Colmenares & Ramírez, 2014 Maimire synonymized with Mecolaesthus
2014-09-15 Genus synonymy Huber, Colmenares & Ramírez, 2014 Carbonaria synonymized with Mecolaesthus
2014-09-15 Genus synonymy Huber, Colmenares & Ramírez, 2014 Venezuela synonymized with Mecolaesthus