Family: Thomisidae Sundevall, 1833 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0058] Back

Gen. Xysticus C. L. Koch, 1835 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02786 ]
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Psammitis Menge, 1876 by Ono, 1988c: 78, contra Ono, 1978b: 285-286 and Wunderlich, 1987a: 253; Psammitis was resurrected by Breitling, 2019a: 203; Wunderlich, 1987a: 253, placed the subgenus Proxysticus Dalmas, 1922 (treated as a genus by some authors, e.g., Jézéquel, 1964c) as a junior synonym of Psammitis Menge, 1876; Wunderlich, 1992a: 495 resurrected  Proxysticus but this was not followed by Wunderlich, 1995F (see also Lehtinen, 2002: 320, 322 and Jantscher, 2002: 331); Breitling, 2019a: 202, 203 confirmed the synonymy of Proxysticus with Bassaniodes Pocock, 1903, as stated by Lehtinen, 2002: 322.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-03-27
Described in
C. L. Koch, 1835: 129, pl. 16-17 (type Aranea audax Schrank, 1803; gender masculine)
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Counts Status
293accepted
60synonym
1nomen nudum
11nomen dubium
4homonym replaced
Reference

Koch, C. L. (1835). Arachniden. In: Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W. (ed.) Deutschlands Insecten. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg, Heft 127-134. [H. 127 & 134 moved from 1834 & 1836 after Nagel & Grieder, 2019: 109] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.15007 download pdf

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