Family: Agelenidae

Coelotes Blackwall, 1841

GENUS |   ACCEPTED

N.B.: generic name conserved (Opinion 1119, ICZN, 1979); considered a senior synonym of Cavator Blackwall, 1841b: 229 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06239] (type Coelotes saxatilis Blackwall, 1841 = Coelotes atropos (Walckenaer, 1830)) by Thorell, 1870b: 128; considered a senior synonym of Urobia Komatsu, 1957: 67 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04944] (type U. hexommata Komatsu, 1957) by Lehtinen, 1967: 273 and of Speleocicurina Kishida, in Komatsu, 1942b: 57, 70 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05835] (type S. cavicola Kishida, 1942) by Ono & Ogata, 2018: 602 (Speleocicurina was considered a nomen nudum by Yaginuma, in Brignoli, 1983c: 468); the subgenus Inermocoelotes Ovtchinnikov, 1999 elevated to generic rank and recognized as senior synonym of Eurocoelotes Wang, 2002: 73 by Mikhailov, 2010a: 101; the subgenus Brignoliolus Ovtchinnikov, 1999: 74 elevated to generic rank by Zonstein & Marusik, 2024b: 216.

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Last updated: 2025-08-28

Species counts

ACCEPTED: 157

SYNONYM: 16

NOMEN NUDUM: 1

NOMEN DUBIUM: 3

HOMONYM: 2

Taxonomic Reference
Original description Blackwall, 1841a: 618 type Coelotes saxatilis Blackwall, 1841; gender masculine; syn. of Coelotes atropos (Walckenaer, 1830)
Reference

Blackwall, J. (1841a). The difference in the number of eyes with which spiders are provided proposed as the basis of their distribution into tribes; with descriptions of newly discovered species and the characters of a new family and three new genera of spiders. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 18(4): 601-670. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1838.tb00210.x -- Show included taxa

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2022-11-11 Genus synonymy Ono & Ogata, 2018 Speleocicurina synonymized with Coelotes
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