Family: Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0042] Back
Gen.
Lathys Simon, 1885 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01981 ]
N.B.: year of description corrected per Frétey, 2023: 14; replacement name for Lethia Menge, 1869: 249 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05483], preoccupied in Lepidoptera by Hübner, 1816; considered a senior synonym of Prodalia Marx, 1891: 34 (type P. foxi Marx, 1891) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05523] by Simon, 1892a: 240; considered a senior synonym of Dictyolathys Banks, 1900c: 534 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05521] (type D. maculata Banks, 1900 = Lathys maculina Gertsch, 1946) and Neophanes Marx, 1891: 33 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05522] (type N. pallidus Marx, 1891) by Gertsch, 1946a: 1; considered a senior synonym of Auximus Simon, 1892a: 239 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05484] (type Amaurobius dentichelis Simon, 1883, transferred from the Amaurobiidae) and Analtella Denis, 1947e: 145 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05485] (type A. brevitarsis Denis, 1947) by Lehtinen, 1967: 242.
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2024-04-27
2024-04-27
Described in
Simon, 1885f: 321 (type Lethia varia Menge, 1869; gender feminine; syn. of Lathys humilis (Blackwall, 1855))
Simon, 1885f: 321 (type Lethia varia Menge, 1869; gender feminine; syn. of Lathys humilis (Blackwall, 1855))
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 51 | accepted |
| 22 | synonym |
| 3 | homonym replaced |
Reference
Edit history
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] 
| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-24 | Genus updated | Frétey, 2023 | Error corrected (Old value) |