Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0103] Back

Gen. Walckenaeria Blackwall, 1833 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01350 ]
N.B.: Walckenaera is an unjustified emendation; considered a senior synonym of Arrecerus Simon, 1864: 197 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06006] (type Micryphantes camelinus C. L. Koch, 1836 = Walckenaeria acuminata Blackwall, 1833) and of Phalops Menge, 1868: 218 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05263] (type Theridion cornutum Wider, 1834 = Walckenaeria acuminata Blackwall, 1833) by Simon, 1884a: 813, 819; furthermore Phalops is preoccupied in Coleoptera by Erichson, 1847; Phalops was replaced with Jacksonia Smith, 1905a: 243 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06007]; considered a senior synonym of Wideria Simon, 1864: 196 (originally misspelled Viderius, corrected to Widerius by Simon, 1864: 477 and to Wideria by Simon, 1884a: 799) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05259] (type Micryphantes tibialis C. L. Koch, 1836 = Walckenaeria antica (Wider, 1834)), Cornicularia Menge, 1869: 226 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05254] (type Walckenaeria unicornis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1861), Prosopotheca Simon, 1884a: 829 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05256] (type Theridion monoceros Wider, 1834), Tigellinus Simon, 1884a: 838 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05257] (type Phalops furcillatus Menge, 1869) and Trachynella Brændegaard, 1932: 9 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05258] by Merrett, 1963b: 462, and of Paragonatium Schenkel, 1927a: 1 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05255] (type P. strandi Schenkel, 1927 = Walckenaeria kochi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)) by Wunderlich, 1974b: 166; Trachynella is a replacement name for Trachynotus Dahl, 1886: 96 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04631] (type Walckenaeria obtusa Blackwall, 1836), preoccupied in Pisces by Cuvier, 1817, an emendation of Trachinotus Lacépède, 1801; Cornicularia is considered a senior synonym of Spiropalpus Emerton, 1882: 39 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05262] (type S. spiralis Emerton, 1882) by Petrunkevitch, 1928: 247.
Status: accepted
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2024-10-31
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Blackwall, 1833: 105 (type Walckenaeria acuminata Blackwall, 1833; gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
199accepted
54synonym
7nomen dubium
Reference

Blackwall, J. (1833). Characters of some undescribed genera and species of Araneidae. London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science (3) 3(14, 15, 17, 18): 104-112, 187-197, 344-352, 436-443. , 10.1080/14786443308648155, 10.1080/14786443308648198, 10.1080/14786443308648224 doi:10.1080/14786443308648135 download pdf

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