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

Gen. Dolichognatha O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01372 ]
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Landana Simon, 1884p: 185 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05575] (type L. petiti Simon, 1884, transferred from the Archaeidae to the Araneidae by Lehtinen, 1967: 289 and to the Tetragnathidae by Levi, 1981a: 277), Paraebius Thorell, 1894a: 43 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05577] (type P. mandibularis Thorell, 1894), Nicholasia Bryant & Archer, 1940: 60 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05576] (type Epeira pentagona Hentz, 1850) and Afiamalu Marples, 1955a: 495 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05574] (type A. richardi Marples, 1955) by Levi, 1981a: 277, of Homalopoltys Simon, 1895a: 894 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01492] (type H. albidus Simon, 1895) by Smith, 2008: 10, of Atimiosa Simon, 1895g: 154 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01364] (type A. quinquemucronata Simon, 1895) by Dimitrov, Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2010: 6, and of Prolochus Thorell, 1895: 122 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04312] (type P. longiceps Thorell, 1895) by Levi, 1981a: 277 (confirmed by Kallal & Hormiga, 2018: 415, contra Barrion-Dupo & Barrion, 2014: 196).
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-10-14
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O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869b: 387 (type Dolichognatha nietneri O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869; gender feminine)
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Counts Status
34accepted
1synonym
Reference

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1869b). Catalogue of a collection of Ceylon Araneida lately received from Mr J. Nietner, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. I. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 10(46): 373-397, pl. 11-13. [pp. 395-397, pl. 11-13 publ. in issue 47 in 1870, doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1870.tb00668.x] doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1869.tb00667.x download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2018-04-09 Genus synonymy Kallal & Hormiga, 2018a Prolochus synonymized with Dolichognatha