N.B.: replacement name for Achaea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882c: 428 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05311], preoccupied in Lepidoptera by Hübner, 1823; possibly polyphyletic (Forster, Platnick & Coddington, 1990: 114); not a senior synonym of Parasteatoda Archer, 1946 (Saaristo, 2006: 69, contra Levi, 1995a: 6), or of Cryptachaea Archer, 1946 or Hentziectypus Archer, 1946 (Yoshida, 2008: 38, contra Levi, 1955a: 6).
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Last updated: 2025-11-18
Species counts
ACCEPTED: 28
SYNONYM: 3
NOMEN DUBIUM: 1
HOMONYM: 1
Taxonomic Reference
Original description
Strand,
1929: 6
type Achaea insignis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882; gender feminine; syn. of Achaearanea trapezoidalis (Taczanowski, 1873)
