Family: Agelenidae C. L. Koch, 1837 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0037] Back

Gen. Coelotes Blackwall, 1841 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02016 ]
N.B.: generic name conserved (Opinion 1119, ICZN, 1979); considered a senior synonym of Urobia Komatsu, 1957: 67 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04944] (type U. hexommata Komatsu, 1957) by Lehtinen, 1967: 273 and of Speleocicurina Kishida, in Komatsu, 1942b: 57, 70 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05835] (type S. cavicola Kishida, 1942) by Ono & Ogata, 2018: 602 (Speleocicurina was considered a nomen nudum by Yaginuma, in Brignoli, 1983c: 468); the subgenus Inermocoelotes Ovtchinnikov, 1999 elevated to generic rank and recognized as senior synonym of Eurocoelotes Wang, 2002: 73 by Mikhailov, 2010a: 101; the subgenus Brignoliolus Ovtchinnikov, 1999: 74 elevated to generic rank by Zonstein & Marusik, 2024b: 216.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-11-26
Described in
Blackwall, 1841a: 618 (type Coelotes saxatilis Blackwall, 1841; gender masculine; syn. of Coelotes atropos (Walckenaer, 1830))
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Species counts
Counts Status
157accepted
10synonym
1nomen nudum
4nomen dubium
2homonym replaced
Reference

Blackwall, J. (1841a). The difference in the number of eyes with which spiders are provided proposed as the basis of their distribution into tribes; with descriptions of newly discovered species and the characters of a new family and three new genera of spiders. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 18(4): 601-670. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1838.tb00210.x download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2022-11-11 Genus synonymy Ono & Ogata, 2018 Speleocicurina synonymized with Coelotes