Family: Linyphiidae

Elaphopus Menge, 1879

GENUS |   NOMEN DUBIUM

N.B.: replacement name for Elaphidion Menge, 1869: 224 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05963] (type E. flagelliferum Menge, 1869), preoccupied in Coleoptera by Audinet-Serville, 1834; removed from the synonymy of Saloca Simon, 1926 by da Silva-Moreira, Kulkarni & Hormiga, 2025: 74 (rejecting Roewer, 1942a: 701); see also the note at Metapanamomops Millidge, 1977.


LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05964

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Last updated: 2025-08-25

Species counts

NOMEN DUBIUM: 1

Taxonomic Reference
Original description Menge, 1879: "Verzeichniss" = Index, p. 4, 8 type Elaphidion flagelliferum Menge, 1869; gender masculine
Reference

Menge, A. (1879). Preussische Spinnen. X. Fortsetzung; XI. Fortsetzung und Schluss. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (N. F.) 4: 495-542; 543-560. -- Show included taxa

Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-08-25 Nota bene edited Old value
2025-08-25 Taxon is nomen dubium da Silva-Moreira, Kulkarni & Hormiga, 2025 Elaphopus Menge, 1879 declared a nomen dubium

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