Family: Toxopidae Hickman,1940 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0125] Back

Gen. Laestrygones Urquhart , 1894 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01868 ]
N.B.: Transferred from the Oxyopidae to the Toxopidae by Forster, 1964a: 147, to Desidae by Forster, 1970b: 121; considered a senior synonym of Stiphidiellum Dalmas, 1917, transferred from the Psechridae, by Forster, 1955c: 186. Transfer to Cycloctenidae (Murphy & Roberts, 2015: viii) not sufficiently justified and is not accepted here. Transferred from Desidae to Toxopidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 609. Generic name appears grammatically to be a plural noun, but in the interests of stability should be regarded as an arbitary combination of letters and as masculine singular.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2017-11-14
Described in
Urquhart, 1894
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Species counts
Counts Status
6accepted
1synonym
Reference

Urquhart, A. T. (1894). Description of new species of Araneae. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 26: 204-218. download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2017-11-14 Genus transferred to other family Wheeler et al., 2017 Laestrygones Urquhart, 1894 transferred to Toxopidae