Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0101] Back

Gen. Pellenes Simon, 1876 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03140 ]
N.B.: replacement name for Pales C. L. Koch, 1850: 64 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05625], preoccupied in Diptera by Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830; considered a senior synonym of Hyllothyene Caporiacco, 1939a: 380 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05605] (type H. univittata Caporiacco, 1939) by Prószyński, 1987: 44 (by transfer of type species); not a senior synonym of Evarcha Simon, 1902 or Habronattus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 (Griswold, 1987a: 14, contra Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955: 19); see Prószyński, 2002: 237, f. 75-76 for discussion of a female from Hawaii; several subgenera are described in this genus (Pelpaucus Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999: 100 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06164] (type Pellenes limbatus Kulczyński, 1895), Pelmirus Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999: 107 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06165] (type Pellenes dilutus Logunov, 1995), Pelmultus Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999: 112 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06166] (type Attus geniculatus Simon, 1868), Pellap Prószyński, 2016: 17 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06167] (type Attus lapponicus Sundevall, 1833) and Pellenattus Maddison, 2017), of which one is raised to genus meanwhile (Pellenattus by Azevedo, Hedin & Maddison, 2024: 64).
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-10-14
Described in
Simon, 1876a: 90 (type Attus cruciger Walckenaer, 1805; gender masculine; syn. of Pellenes tripunctatus (Walckenaer, 1802))
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Species counts
Counts Status
68accepted
13synonym
10nomen dubium
Reference

Simon, E. (1876a). Les arachnides de France. Tome troisième. Roret, Paris, 364 pp., pl. 9-13. download pdf

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