Dunstanoides Forster & Wilton, 1989

GENUS |   ACCEPTED

N.B.: Dunstanoides Forster & Wilton, in Platnick, 1989b: 409, replacement name for Dunstania Forster & Wilton, 1973: 181 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05172] (type D. hesperis Forster & Wilton, 1973), preoccupied in fossil Heteroptera by Tillyard, 1916; treated as feminine in former versions of the WSC, but as no gender was stated in Platnick, 1989b it is masculine per ICZN Article 30.1.4.4; transferred from the Amphinectidae to the Desidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 606 - not explicitely but together with the whole family; transfer to the Amaurobiidae (Murphy & Roberts, 2015: viii) not sufficiently justified and is not accepted here.

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01903

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Last updated: 2022-05-09

Species counts

ACCEPTED: 9

Taxonomic Reference
Original description Platnick, 1989b: 409 type Dunstania hesperis Forster & Wilton, 1973; gender masculine
Reference

Platnick, N. I. (1989b). Advances in spider taxonomy 1981-1987: a supplement to Brignoli's A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 673 pp. -- Show included taxa

Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2022-05-09 Nota bene edited Old value
2019-08-01 Nota bene edited Old value
2019-08-01 Nota bene edited Old value
2019-05-23 Genus updated Old value
2017-11-14 Nota bene edited Old value
2017-11-14 Genus transferred to other family Wheeler et al., 2017 Dunstanoides Forster & Wilton, 1989 transferred to Desidae

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