Family: Barychelidae Simon, 1889 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0009] Back

Gen. Adelonychia Walsh, 1890 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04770 ]
N.B.: wrongly synonymized with Diplothele O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891b: 621 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00156] (type D. walshi O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891 = Adelonychia nigrostriata Walsh, 1890) by Gravely, 1915: 263 (confirmed by Siliwal, Molur & Raven, 2009: 184, after declaration as nomen dubium by Raven, 1985a: 145); synonymy turned around by Blick, 2022: 495.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2022-01-09
Described in
Walsh, 1890: 269 (type Adelonychia nigrostriata Walsh, 1890; gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
4accepted
1synonym
Reference

Walsh, J. H. T. (1890). A new trap-door spider from Orissa. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, part II (Natural Science) 59(3): 269-270. [corrected from 1891 to 1890, per Blick, 2022] download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2022-01-08 Genus synonymy Blick, 2022 Diplothele synonymized with Adelonychia
2022-01-08 New genus inserted Walsh, 1890 n/a