Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0099] Back
Gen.
Achaearanea Strand, 1929 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00662 ]
N.B.: replacement name for Achaea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882c: 428 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05311], preoccupied in Lepidoptera by Hübner, 1823; possibly polyphyletic (Forster, Platnick & Coddington, 1990: 114); not a senior synonym of Parasteatoda Archer, 1946 (Saaristo, 2006: 69, contra Levi, 1995a: 6), or of Cryptachaea Archer, 1946 or Hentziectypus Archer, 1946 (Yoshida, 2008: 38, contra Levi, 1955a: 6).
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2024-05-31
2024-05-31
Described in
Strand, 1929: 6 (type Achaea insignis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882; gender feminine; syn. of Achaearanea trapezoidalis (Taczanowski, 1873))
Strand, 1929: 6 (type Achaea insignis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882; gender feminine; syn. of Achaearanea trapezoidalis (Taczanowski, 1873))
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 27 | accepted |
| 3 | synonym |
| 1 | nomen dubium |
| 1 | homonym replaced |
Reference
Edit history
Strand, E. (1929). Zoological and palaeontological nomenclatorical notes. Acta Universitatis Latviensis 20: 1-29. 
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