Gen.
Eresus Walckenaer, 1805 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03330 ]
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Erythrophorus C. L. Koch, 1850: 70 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04793] (type Aranea cinnaberina Olivier, 1789) by Simon, 1864: 299, sub Eresa (Erythrophora), downgraded to subgenus.
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2025-03-05
2025-03-05
Described in
Walckenaer, 1805: 21 (type Aranea cinnaberina Olivier, 1789; gender masculine; type species fixed by Thorell, 1870b: 200; E. cinnaberinus sensu Walckenaer, 1805 is E. kollari Rossi, 1846 (misidentified sensu Řezáč, Pekár & Johannesen, 2008: 267); E. cinnaberinus is a nomen dubium)
Walckenaer, 1805: 21 (type Aranea cinnaberina Olivier, 1789; gender masculine; type species fixed by Thorell, 1870b: 200; E. cinnaberinus sensu Walckenaer, 1805 is E. kollari Rossi, 1846 (misidentified sensu Řezáč, Pekár & Johannesen, 2008: 267); E. cinnaberinus is a nomen dubium)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 27 | accepted |
| 5 | synonym |
| 10 | nomen dubium |
Reference
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Walckenaer, C. A. (1805). Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions. Dentu, Paris, 88 pp. 
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