Family: Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0032] Back

Gen. Diphya Nicolet, 1849 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01371 ]
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Cardimia Mello-Leitão, 1940a: 61 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01451] (in Araneidae, type C. eximia Mello-Leitão, 1940) by Ott, Rodrigues & Brescovit, 2023: 2 (contra Levi, 2002: 562, who synonymized it with Azilia Keyserling, 1881); type genus of the subfamily Diphyainae Simon, 1894a: 742 (sub Diphyeae).
Status: accepted
Last updated
2023-05-27
Described in
Nicolet, 1849: 406 (type Diphya macrophthalma Nicolet, 1849; gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
21accepted
9synonym
Reference

Nicolet, H. (1849). Aracnidos. In: Gay, C. (ed.) Historia física y política de Chile. Zoología 3, 319-543, pl. 1-5. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.16172 download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2023-05-27 Genus synonymy Ott, Rodrigues & Brescovit, 2023 Cardimia synonymized with Diphya