Taxon details

Family: Cheiracanthiidae / Genus: Cheiracanthium

Cheiracanthium mordax L. Koch, 1866

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-09-25
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023381]
  • Distribution: Japan, Australia, New Hebrides, Samoa, Solomon Is., Tonga?, French Polynesia?
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany; m (A0000777) of Cheiracanthium diversum (Dondale, 1966)
  • Holotype: ; m (could not be located) (Dondale, 1966)
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); m (A0000779), 2f (A0000778, A0000780), 1j (A0000781), m (A0000782) of Cheiracanthium gilvum -- 1m 3f per Dondale, 1966
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Chiracanthicum gilvum L. Koch, 1873, (3406)
  • Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; 2m 1f of Chiracanthicum gilvum (Dondale, 1966)
Taxonomic references
Cheiracanthium mordax L. Koch, 1866: 262, pl. 11, f. 167 (Dm).
Cheiracanthium mordax L. Koch, 1873: 403, pl. 31, f. 5 (m).
Cheiracanthium diversum L. Koch, 1873: 396, pl. 32, f. 2 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059918].
Cheiracanthium gilvum L. Koch, 1873: 410, pl. 32, f. 5-6 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059919].
Cheiracanthium diversum Marples, 1959a: 364, f. 1 (Df).
Cheiracanthium mordax Main, 1964: 76, f. A-F (m).
Chiracanthium mordax Dondale, 1966: 1178, f. 6F-J (mf, S of Cheiracanthium diversum and C. gilvum).
Cheiracanthium mordax Dierkens & Ramage, 2016: 140, f. 12-14 (mf).
Eutittha mordax Esyunin & Zamani, 2020: 1302, f. 2a (f, T from Cheiracanthium).
Cheiracanthium mordax Hidaka, 2022c: 173, f. 15-16 (f).
Eutittha mordax Suzuki et al., 2023: 52, f. 9G (f).
References

Dierkens, M. & Ramage, T. (2016). Deuxième contribution à la connaissance des araignées de Polynésie française. Bilan des espèces présentes et description de Theridion charlati n. sp. et Glenognatha ledouxi n. sp. Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 85(3-4): 134-172. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dondale, C. D. (1966). The spider fauna (Araneida) of deciduous orchards in the Australian Capital Territory. Australian Journal of Zoology 14(6): 1157-1192. doi:10.1071/ZO9661157 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Esyunin, S. L. & Zamani, A. (2020). ‘Conundrum of esoterica’: on the long-forgotten genus Eutittha Thorell, 1878, with new taxonomic considerations in Cheiracanthium C. L. Koch, 1839 (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae). Journal of Natural History 54(19-20): 1293-1323. doi:10.1080/00222933.2020.1781950 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hidaka, R. (2022c). [CD Japanese spider ver. 2020 Kumamoto prefecture list unlisted species]. Kishidaia 120: 172-173. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1866). Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden. Nürnberg, Hefte 1-6, pp. 1-304. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1873). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 8-9]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 369-472, pl. 28-36. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Main, B. Y. (1964). Spiders of Australia: a guide to their identification with brief notes on the natural history of common forms. Jacaranda Press, Brisbane, 124 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marples, B. J. (1959a). Spiders from some Pacific islands, III. The Kingdom of Tonga. Pacific Science 13: 362-367. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Suzuki, Y., Noguchi, S., Osaki, H. & Tatsuta, H. (2023). Spiders (Araneae) collected from Kuchino-shima, Gaja-jima and Suwanosejima Islands, the Tokara Islands, Japan. Kagoshima Prefectural Museum Research Report 42(2022): 41-56. [publ. March 2023] download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-09-25 Species transferred to new genus Raven & Hebron, 2024 Species transferred from Eutittha to Cheiracanthium
2024-08-29 New taxonomic reference entry Suzuki et al., 2023 n/a
2024-08-29 Species distribution update Suzuki et al., 2023 n/a (Old value)
2022-04-13 New taxonomic reference entry Hidaka, 2022c n/a
2020-10-29 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Eutittha submordax (Zhang, Zhu & Hu, 1993)
2020-10-29 New taxonomic reference entry Esyunin & Zamani, 2020 n/a
2020-10-29 Species transferred to new genus Esyunin & Zamani, 2020 Species transferred from Cheiracanthium to Eutittha
2020-10-29 Species distribution update Esyunin & Zamani, 2020 n/a (Old value)
2020-10-29 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Cheiracanthium submordax Zhang, Zhu & Hu, 1993
2020-10-29 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Cheiracanthium submordax Zhang, Zhu & Hu, 1993
2020-10-29 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Cheiracanthium submordax Zhang, Zhu & Hu, 1993
2019-03-02 Taxonomic reference update n/a (Old value)
2017-08-08 New taxonomic reference entry Dierkens & Ramage, 2016 n/a
2017-08-08 Species distribution update Dierkens & Ramage, 2016 n/a (Old value)
2014-09-10 Species distribution update Chen & Huang, 2012 n/a (Old value)
2014-09-10 New taxonomic reference entry Chen & Huang, 2012 n/a
2014-09-10 Species synonymy Chen & Huang, 2012 Cheiracanthium submordax synonymized with Cheiracanthium mordax