Family: Araneidae

Gnolus Simon, 1879

GENUS |   ACCEPTED

N.B.: transferred from the Araneidae to the Mimetidae by Platnick & Shadab, 1993: 18, after Tullgren, 1902; Oarcinae Simon, 1890a: 81 (Gnolus and Oarces) transferred from the Mimetidae to the Araneidae by Dimitrov et al., 2012: Suppl. 1, p. 15; re-transfer to the Mimetidae by Eskov & Marusik, 2023: 340 and Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 not accepted here (by majority vote of the WSC boards); not a senior synonym of Arcidius Simon, 1893 [which is itself a synonym of Testudinaria Taczanowski, 1879] (Levi, 2005b: 188).

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03320

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Last updated: 2023-05-05

Species counts

ACCEPTED: 6

SYNONYM: 1

Taxonomic Reference
Original description Simon, 1879a: 58 type Arkys cordiformis Nicolet, 1849; gender masculine
Reference

Simon, E. (1879a). Note sur les Epeiridae de la sous-famille des Arcyinae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 22(C.R.): 55-61. -- Show included taxa

Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-01-27 Nota bene edited Old value
2024-12-21 Nota bene edited Old value
2024-02-15 Nota bene edited Old value
2023-05-05 Nota bene edited Old value
2016-11-18 Nota bene edited Old value
2016-11-18 Genus transferred to other family Dimitrov et al., 2012 Gnolus Simon, 1879 transferred to Araneidae

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