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Genus: Xilithus Liu & Li, 2023 | Family: Phrurolithidae Banks, 1892

Xilithus meles Kamura, 2021

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053305

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Described:

Distribution: Japan

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba (NSMT), Japan m - (Kamura, 2021a)
Paratype: Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba (NSMT), Japan 1m 1f - (Kamura, 2021a)

Taxonomic References

Otacilia meles Kamura, 2021a: 29, f. 1A-B, 2A-E (Dmf) Original description

Acrolithus meles Kamura, 2022b: 136, f. 1E-H (mf, T from Otacilia)

Xilithus meles Lin, Li & Pham, 2023: 57 (T from Acrolithus, by replacing the preoccupied generic name)

References

Kamura, T. (2021a). A new species of the genus Otacilia (Araneae: Phrurolithidae) from Shikoku and Awaji-shima Is., Japan. Acta Arachnologica 70(1): 29-32. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.70.29 -- Show included taxa

Kamura, T. (2022b). Generic placements of the Japanese species assigned to the genus Otacilia (Araneae: Phrurolithidae), with a description of a new genus. Acta Arachnologica 71(2): 135-140. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.71.135 -- Show included taxa

Lin, Y. J., Li, S. Q. & Pham, D. S. (2023). Taxonomic notes on some spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from China and Vietnam. Zoological Systematics 48(1): 1-99. doi: 10.11865/zs.2023101 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2023-01-19	New taxonomic reference entry	Lin, Li & Pham, 2023
2023-01-19	Species transferred to new genus	Lin, Li & Pham, 2023	Species transferred from Acrolithus to Xilithus
2023-01-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Kamura, 2022b
2023-01-05	Species transferred to new genus	Kamura, 2022b	Species transferred from Otacilia to Acrolithus
2021-07-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Kamura, 2021a
2021-07-07	New species inserted	Kamura, 2021a