Taxon details

Family: Phrurolithidae / Genus: Xilithus

Xilithus meles (Kamura, 2021)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-08-29
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053305]
  • Distribution: Japan
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba (NSMT), Japan; m (Kamura, 2021a)
  • Paratype: Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba (NSMT), Japan; 1m 1f (Kamura, 2021a)
Taxonomic references
Otacilia meles Kamura, 2021a: 29, f. 1A-B, 2A-E (Dmf).
Acrolithus meles Kamura, 2022b: 136, f. 1E-H (mf, T from Otacilia).
Xilithus meles Lin, Li & Pham, 2023: 57 (T from Acrolithus, by replacing the preoccupied generic name).
Xilithus meles Suzuki & Bando, 2024: 90, f. 2A-D (m).
References

Kamura, T. (2021a). A new species of the genus Otacilia (Araneae: Phrurolithidae) from Shikoku and Awaji-shima Is., Japan. Acta Arachnologica 70(1): 29-32. doi:10.2476/asjaa.70.29 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kamura, T. (2022b). Generic placements of the Japanese species assigned to the genus Otacilia (Araneae: Phrurolithidae), with a description of a new genus. Acta Arachnologica 71(2): 135-140. doi:10.2476/asjaa.71.135 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lin, Y. J., Li, S. Q. & Pham, D. S. (2023). Taxonomic notes on some spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from China and Vietnam. Zoological Systematics 48(1): 1-99. doi:10.11865/zs.2023101 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Suzuki, Y. & Bando, H. (2024). Revision of spiders collected in Kaiyô-chô, Kaifu-gun, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan: records of Xysticus kansuensis Tang, Song and Zhu, 1995 (Araneae: Thomisidae) and Xilithus meles (Kamura, 2021) (Araneae: Phrurolithidae). Bulletin of the Tokushima Prefecture Museum 34: 89-92. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-08-29 New taxonomic reference entry Suzuki & Bando, 2024 n/a
2023-01-19 New taxonomic reference entry Lin, Li & Pham, 2023 n/a
2023-01-19 Species transferred to new genus Lin, Li & Pham, 2023 Species transferred from Acrolithus to Xilithus
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Kamura, 2022b n/a
2023-01-05 Species transferred to new genus Kamura, 2022b Species transferred from Otacilia to Acrolithus
2021-07-07 New taxonomic reference entry Kamura, 2021a n/a
2021-07-07 New species inserted Kamura, 2021a n/a