Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae
Author
Huber, Bernhard A.
Author
Colmenares, Pío A.
Author
Ramirez, Martin J.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3847
3
413
422
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3847.3.5
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1175-5326
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Artema atlanta
Walckenaer, 1837
Artema atlanta
Walckenaer, 1837
: 656
.
F.O. Pickard-Cambridge 1902
: 366
, pl. 34, figs. 15–16.
Petrunkevitch 1929
: 119
, figs. 102–104.
Chrysanthus 1967
: 92
, figs. 15–19.
Brignoli 1981
: 92
, figs. 1–7.
Saaristo 2001
: 15
, figs. 16–22.
Artema mauriciana
Walckenaer, 1837
: 657
.
Millot 1946
: 129
, fig. 1. Synonymized by
F.O. Pickard-Cambridge (1902)
.
Pholcus sisyphoides
Doleschall, 1857
: 408
. Synonymized by
F.O. Pickard-Cambridge (1902)
.
Artema convexa
Blackwall, 1858
: 332
. Synonymized by
Simon (1885)
.
Pholcus borbonicus
Vinson, 1863
: 132
. Synonymized by
Simon (1885)
.
Pholcus rotundatus
Karsch, 1879
: 106
. Synonymized by
Simon (1893b)
.
Crossopriza sexsignata
Franganillo Balboa, 1926
: 49
. Synonymized by
Pérez González (1996)
.
Coroia magna
González-Sponga, 2005
: 102
, pl. 2, figs. 1–11;
new synonymy.
Justification of synonymy.
We have not re-examined the
type
specimens (from Falcón State,
Venezuela
) but González-Sponga’s drawings show all the distinctive characters of this species (armature of chelicerae; shape of palp and of bulbal processes; shape of epigynal sclerites). In addition,
Artema
is an Old World genus, and
A. atlanta
is the only species that has attained a pantropical distribution (including numerous New World records, e.g.
Walckenaer 1837
;
Blackwall 1858
;
Karsch 1879
;
Petrunkevitch 1929
;
Brignoli 1981
).