Family: Argyronetidae

Altella Simon, 1885

GENUS |   ACCEPTED

N.B.: year of description corrected per Frétey, 2023: 124; transferred from the Dictynidae to the Argyronetidae by Montana et al., 2025: 43; replacement name for Amphissa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882a: 2 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05481], preoccupied in Gastropoda by H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858; considered a senior synonym of Altellela Miller, 1949: 80 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05482] (type A. biuncata Miller, 1949) by Lehtinen, 1967: 211; may be a junior synonym of Argenna Thorell, 1869 (Wunderlich, 1995b: 424, Wunderlich, 2004j: 1429).

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01958

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Last updated: 2025-07-06

Species counts

ACCEPTED: 11

SYNONYM: 4

Taxonomic Reference
Original description Simon, 1885f: 321 type Lethia spinigera O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881; gender feminine; syn. of Altella lucida (Simon, 1874)
Reference

Simon, E. (1885f). Arachnides nouveaux d'Algérie. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 9(6, 1884): 321-327. [[year corrected per Frétey, 2023: 14]] -- Show included taxa

Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-07-10 Nota bene edited Old value
2025-07-06 Genus transferred to other family Montana et al., 2025 Altella Simon, 1885 transferred to Argyronetidae
2023-11-24 Nota bene edited Old value
2023-11-24 Genus updated Frétey, 2023 Old value Error corrected
2022-07-12 Nota bene edited Old value
2022-07-12 Nota bene edited Old value

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