N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Theridion by Bryant, 1940: 313 (contra Simon, 1894a: 550); considered a senior synonym of Arctachaea Levi, 1957e: 102 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05312] (type A. pelyx Levi, 1957) and Argyroaster Yaginuma, 1958b: 37 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05314] by Levi & Levi, 1962: 16; considered a senior synonym of Physcoa Thorell, 1895b: 82 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06169] (type P. scintillans Thorell, 1895) [regarded as junior synoynym of Meotipa by Simon, 1895a: 1068] by Yoshida, 2001c: 174 (by transfer of the type species, accepting the presumption of Levi & Levi, 1962: 47); Argyroaster is a replacement name for Argyria Yaginuma, 1957b: 11 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05313] (type A. venusta Yaginuma, 1957 = Chrysso scintillans (Thorell, 1895)), preoccupied in Lepidoptera by Hübner, 1818; not a senior synonym of Meotipa Simon, 1895 (Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009b: 407, contra Levi & Levi, 1962: 23).

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