Family: Phrurolithidae Banks, 1892 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0118] Back
Gen.
Dorymetaecus Rainbow, 1920 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02217 ]
N.B.: transferred from the Clubionidae to the Phrurolithidae by Ramírez, 2014: 343; considered a senior synonym of Zoroides Berland, 1924a: 235 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02512] (type Z. dalmasi Berland, 1924, transferred from the Ctenidae to the Zoridae [= Miturgidae] by Lehtinen, 1967: 276) by Raven, Hebron & Williams, 2023: 10 (transferred from the Miturgidae to the Phrurolithidae).
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2023-10-24
2023-10-24
Described in
Rainbow, 1920b: 258 (type Dorymetaecus spinnipes Rainbow, 1920; gender masculine)
Rainbow, 1920b: 258 (type Dorymetaecus spinnipes Rainbow, 1920; gender masculine)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 2 | accepted |
Reference
Edit history
Rainbow, W. J. (1920b). Arachnida from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Records of the South Australian Museum 1(3): 229-272, pl. 28-31. 
| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-24 | Genus synonymy | Raven, Hebron & Williams, 2023 | Zoroides synonymized with Dorymetaecus |
| 2014-07-25 | Genus transferred to other family | Ramírez, 2014 | Dorymetaecus Rainbow, 1920 transferred to Phrurolithidae |