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Genus: Azilia Keyserling, 1881 | Family: Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866

Azilia histrio Simon, 1895

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013451

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Described:

Distribution: French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Brazil

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (6010) of Azilia boudeti - (Brescovit et al., 2025b)
Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil jm (41894, lost, examined before the fire in 2018) of Arochoides integrans - (Brescovit et al., 2025b)
Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 5f 3j (6010) - (Brescovit et al., 2025b)
Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 2m 1f (1923.III.23.12-13, 1923.VII.23.129, 1930.7.15.98) of Azilia marmorata - (Brescovit et al., 2025b)
Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 2j (035) Cyrtophora vachoni - (Brescovit et al., 2025b)

Taxonomic References

Azilia histrio Simon, 1894a: 740, f. 821 (nomen nudum)

Azilia boudeti Simon, 1895g: 153 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013448]

Azilia histrio Simon, 1895g: 152 (Df) Original description

Arochoides integrans Mello-Leitão, 1935b: 324, f. 1, text-f. 2 (Dm; j per Benavides & Hormiga, 2020: 178) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005647]

Azilia marmorata Mello-Leitão, 1948: 161, f. 7 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013452]

Cyrtophora vachoni Caporiacco, 1954: 82 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013455]

Azilia vachoni Levi, 1997: 252 (T from Cyrtophora)

Azilia integrans Benavides & Hormiga, 2020: 178, f. 25A-D (T from Arochoides, probably S of Azilia histrio)

Azilia histrio Brescovit et al., 2025b: 238, f. 46a-j, 47a-h, 48a-f, 49a-e, 50a-f, 51a-f (mf, S of Azilia boudeti, A. integrans, A. marmorata and A. vachoni)

References

Benavides, L. R. & Hormiga, G. (2020). A morphological and combined phylogenetic analysis of pirate spiders (Araneae, Mimetidae): evolutionary relationships, taxonomy, and character evolution. Invertebrate Systematics 34(2): 144-191. doi: 10.1071/IS19032 -- Show included taxa

Brescovit, A. D., Rodrigues, E. N. L., Álvarez-Padilla, F. & Ott, R. (2025b). Taxonomic revision of the spider genus Azilia Keyserling, 1881 (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Megataxa 18(1): 188-261. doi: 10.11646/megataxa.18.1.2 -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1954). Araignées de la Guyane Française du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 16: 45-193. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1997). The American orb weavers of the genera Mecynogea, Manogea, Kapogea and Cyrtophora (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 155: 215-255. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1935b). Dois novos Mimetidae do Brasil méridional, com algumas notas sobre a familia. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 7: 323-327. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1948). Contribuição ao conhecimento da fauna araneológica das Guianas. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 20(2): 151-196. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1894a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 489-760. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1895g). Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64: 131-160. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-12-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Brescovit et al., 2025b
2025-12-04	Species distribution update	Brescovit et al., 2025b	Old value
2025-12-04	Species synonymy	Brescovit et al., 2025b		Azilia vachoni synonymized with Azilia histrio
2025-12-04	Species synonymy	Brescovit et al., 2025b		Azilia marmorata synonymized with Azilia histrio
2025-12-04	Species synonymy	Brescovit et al., 2025b		Azilia integrans synonymized with Azilia histrio
2025-12-04	Species synonymy	Brescovit et al., 2025b		Azilia boudeti synonymized with Azilia histrio