Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0099] Back
Gen.
Robertus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00715 ]
N.B.: this name, not its senior synonym Ctenium Menge, 1871: 292 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05702] (type Erigone pinguis Westring, 1851 = Robertus lividus (Blackwall, 1836)), on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN, 1987c) (for the history see Levi, 1962c, Levi, 1985b and Kraus, Kaston & Thaler, 1986); considered a senior synonym Pedanostethus Simon, 1884a: 195 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06144] (type Neriene livida Blackwall, 1836) by Simon, 1914: 307 and of Garritus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1933a: 9 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05703] (type G. vigerens Chamberlin & Ivie, 1933) by Kaston, 1946: 1 (sub Ctenium).
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2024-04-17
2024-04-17
Described in
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879d: 103 (type Robertus astutus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879; gender masculine; syn. of Robertus neglectus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871))
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879d: 103 (type Robertus astutus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879; gender masculine; syn. of Robertus neglectus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871))
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 47 | accepted |
| 13 | synonym |
| 2 | nomen dubium |
Reference
Edit history
Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1879d). The spiders of Dorset. Araneidea. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club 1: 1-235. 
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