Lathys Explained
Lathys is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by Eugène Simon in 1884.[1] It is a replacement name for "Lethia" Menge, 1869 because that name was already in use as a synonym for a genus of moths.[2]
Species
it contains fifty-two species:[3]
- L. adunca Liu, 2018 – China
- L. affinis (Blackwall, 1862) – Madeira, Portugal?
- L. alberta Gertsch, 1946 – USA, Canada, Russia (South Siberia to Far East)
- L. albida Gertsch, 1946 – USA
- L. ankaraensis Özkütük, Marusik, Elverici & Kunt, 2016 – Turkey
- L. annulata Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 – Korea, Japan
- L. bin Marusik & Logunov, 1991 – Russia (Kurile Is.)
- L. borealis Zhang, Hu & Zhang, 2012 – China
- L. brevitibialis Denis, 1956 – Morocco
- L. cambridgei (Simon, 1874) – Israel
- L. changtunesis Hu, 2001 – China
- L. chishuiensis Zhang, Yang & Zhang, 2009 – China
- L. coralynae Gertsch & Davis, 1942 – Mexico
- L. delicatula (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) – USA
- L. deltoidea Liu, 2018 – China
- L. dentichelis (Simon, 1883) – Azores, Canary Is.
- L. dihamata Paik, 1979 – Korea, Japan
- L. dixiana Ivie & Barrows, 1935 – USA
- L. fibulata Liu, 2018 – China
- L. foxi (Marx, 1891) – USA
- L. heterophthalma Kulczyński, 1891 – Europe, Russia (Europe to West Siberia)
- L. huangyangjieensis Liu, 2018 – China
- L. humilis (Blackwall, 1855) (type) – Europe to Caucasus and Iran
- Lathys h. meridionalis (Simon, 1874) – Spain, France (mainland, Corsica), North Africa
- L. immaculata (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944) – USA
- L. inaffecta Li, 2017 – China
- L. insulana Ono, 2003 – Japan
- L. jubata (Denis, 1947) – France
- L. lehtineni Kovblyuk, Kastrygina & Omelko, 2014 – Ukraine, Russia (Europe)
- L. lepida O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1909 – Spain
- L. lutulenta Simon, 1914 – France
- L. maculina Gertsch, 1946 – USA
- L. maculosa (Karsch, 1879) – Korea, Japan
- L. mallorcensis Lissner, 2018 – Spain (Majorca)
- L. maura (Simon, 1911) – Algeria
- L. narbonensis (Simon, 1876) – France, Italy
- L. pallida (Marx, 1891) – USA, Canada
- L. pygmaea Wunderlich, 2011 – Canary Is.
- L. sexoculata Seo & Sohn, 1984 – Korea, Japan
- L. sexpustulata (Simon, 1878) – France, Morocco
- L. simplicior (Dalmas, 1916) – Algeria
- L. sindi (Caporiacco, 1934) – Karakorum
- L. spasskyi Andreeva & Tyschchenko, 1969 – Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
- L. spiralis Zhang, Hu & Zhang, 2012 – China
- L. stigmatisata (Menge, 1869) – Europe, Turkey
- L. subalberta Zhang, Hu & Zhang, 2012 – China
- L. subhumilis Zhang, Hu & Zhang, 2012 – China
- L. subviridis Denis, 1937 – Algeria
- L. sylvania Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 – USA
- L. teideensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is.
- L. truncata Danilov, 1994 – Russia (Central Asia, South Siberia), Kazakhstan
- L. zhanfengi Liu, 2018 – China
Notes and References
- Simon. E.. 1884. Arachnides nouveaux d'Algérie.. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 321–327. 9.
- Simon. E.. 1911. Catalogue raisonné des arachnides du nord de l'Afrique (1re partie). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 79. 3. 265–332.
- Web site: Gen. Lathys Simon, 1884. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-01. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
