Family: Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0056] Back

Gen. Olios Walckenaer, 1837 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02554 ]
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Pelmopoda Karsch, 1879d: 560 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06090] (type P. hirta Karsch, 1879) by Roewer, 1955c: 698 (by transfer of the type species), of Nisueta Simon, 1880a: 329 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029108] (type N. quadrispilota Simon, 1880) and Nonianus Simon, 1885f: 13 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029112] (type N. pictus Simon, 1885) by Jäger, 2020c: 10; apparently not a senior synonym of Macrinus Simon, 1887 or Vindullus Simon, 1880 (Caporiacco, 1955: 404-406); not a senior synonym of Neosparassus Hogg, 1903 (Hirst, 1989a: 7), in which Hirst includes all Australian species formerly placed in Olios; not a senior synonym of Sadala Simon, 1880 (Rheims & Jäger, 2022: 6, rejecting Simon, 1903a: 1025).
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-09-16
Described in
Walckenaer, 1837: 563 (type Micrommata spongitarsis Dufour, 1820; gender masculine; syn. of Olios argelasius (Walckenaer, 1806))
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Species counts
Counts Status
166accepted
28synonym
40nomen dubium
2homonym replaced
Reference

Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier. Roret, Paris, 682 pp., pl. 1-15. [plates in second pdf] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2020-10-22 Genus synonymy Jäger, 2020c Nonianus synonymized with Olios
2020-10-22 Genus synonymy Jäger, 2020c Nisueta synonymized with Olios