Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0102] Back

Gen. Zygiella F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01582 ]
N.B.: transferred to the Tetragnathidae by Levi, 1980a: 2 and back to the Araneidae by Scharff & Coddington, 1997: 404 (after Coddington, 1990: 17); placed in the Zygiellidae Simon, 1929 by Wunderlich, 2004f: 935 (not accepted by later authors); placed in the Phonognathidae Simon, 1894a: 746 (a senior synonym of Zygiellidae) by Kuntner et al., 2019: 563; for the current familial placement see the note at the family; replacement name for Zygia C. L. Koch, 1834: 123.17-19 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05965], preoccupied in Coleoptera by Fabricius, 1775; considered a senior synonym of Parazygiella Wunderlich, 2004f: 936 by Gregorič et al., 2015a: 241 and revalidated by Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-12-20
Described in
F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902d: 15 (type Zygia calophylla C. L. Koch, 1834; gender feminine; syn. of Zygiella x-notata (Clerck, 1757))
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Species counts
Counts Status
8accepted
10synonym
1nomen nudum
1nomen dubium
Reference

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902d). A revision of the genera of Araneae or spiders with reference to their type species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 9(49): 5-20. doi:10.1080/00222930208678611 download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2024-02-08 Genus transferred to other family Hormiga et al., 2023 Zygiella F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 transferred to Araneidae
2023-08-08 Genus transferred to other family Kuntner et al., 2023 Zygiella F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 transferred to Phonognathidae
2016-09-20 Genus synonymy Gregorič et al., 2015a Parazygiella synonymized with Zygiella