What’s a Spider? Designation of the Neotype for the First Animal Species Ever Described, Araneus angulatus Clerck 1757 (Araneae: Araneidae)

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  What’s a Spider? Designation of the Neotype for the First Animal Species Ever Described, Araneus angulatus Clerck 1757 (Araneae: Araneidae) Abstract We designate a neotype for the Eurasian spider species Araneus angulatus Clerck, 1757, thereby fixing the objective application of the species name, the genus name Araneus Clerck 1757, the family name Araneidae Clerck 1757, and the superfamily name Araneoidea Clerck 1757. By etymology and arachnological tradition, it also unofficially fixes the application of the ordinal name Araneae Clerck 1757 and thus answers the uncontroversial question, “What’s a spider?” A. angulatus also happens to be historically the first animal species ever described because Clerck (1757) has priority over Linnaeus (1758). Neotype designation is justified for three reasons: the syntypes of A. angulatus are lost; “ A. angulatus ” contains significant COI sequence divergence, potentially representing intraspecific variation, misidentifications, or as many...

New insights on the diversity of the family Chaerilobuthidae Lourenço & Beigel, 2011 with the description of one new genus and species (Scorpiones)

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New insights on the diversity of the family Chaerilobuthidae Lourenço & Beigel, 2011 with the description of one new genus and species (Scorpiones)

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A new contribution is proposed to the knowledge of the family Chaerilobuthidae Lourenço & Beigel, 2011, originally described from Early Cretaceous Burmite. With the descriptions of one new genus and one new species the diversity of this family, previously composed of the single genus Chaerilobuthus, is improved. The family Chaerilobuthidae remains one of the most speciose groups among those already known from Burmite.


Lourenço W. R. & Velten J., 2024. – New insights on the diversity of the family Chaerilobuthidae Lourenço & Beigel, 2011 with the description of one new genus and species (Scorpiones). Faunitaxys, 12(46): 1 – 6. DOI: https://archive.org/details/faunitaxys-f-318