Family: Theridiidae Sundevall,1833 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0099] Back
Gen.
Episinus Walckenaer ,
1809 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00686 ]
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Moneta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870 (rejected), Episinopsis Simon, 1894, Hyocrea Simon, 1894, Penictis Simon, 1894, Plocamis Simon, 1894, and Hyptimorpha Strand, 1906 (rejected; erroneously listed as a junior synonym of Argyrodes Simon, 1864 by Brignoli, 1983c: 382) by Levi & Levi, 1962: 20-27; Moneta (along with its junior synonym Hyptimorpha) was removed from synonymy by Okuma, 1994: 16; not a senior synonym of Janula Strand, 1932 (Yoshida & Koh, 2011: 79, contra Levi, 1955b: 66).
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2020-03-26
2020-03-26
Described in
Latreille, 1809: 371 (Walckenaer, in Latreille)
Latreille, 1809: 371 (Walckenaer, in Latreille)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 62 | accepted |
| 9 | synonym |
| 1 | nomen dubium |
| 2 | homonym replaced |
Reference
Edit history
Latreille, P. A. (1809). Genera crustaceorum et insectorum. Paris 4, 370-371. 
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