Xilithus meles

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dionycha
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Series: Entelegynae Sectio: Dionycha

Familia: Phrurolithidae
Genus: Xilithus
Speciers: Xilithus meles

Name

Xilithus meles (Kamura, 2021)

Type locality: Aikuri-touge, Kaminishi-kou, Shionoe-cho, Takamatsu-shi, Kagawa Pref., Japan.

Holotype: NMST. male ♂. 26.V.2017. legit K. Ogata

Synonymy

• Otacilia meles Kamura, 2021: 29 (original combination)
• Acrolithus meles (Kamura): Kamura, 2022: 136
• Xilithus meles (Kamura): Lin, Li & Pham, 2023: 57

References

Primary references

• Kamura, T. 2021. A new species of the genus Otacilia (Araneae: Phrurolithidae) from Shikoku and Awaji-shima Is., Japan. Acta Arachnologica 70(1): 29-32. DOI: 10.2476/asjaa.70.29 . Reference page. 

Additional references

• Kamura, T. 2022. Generic placements of the Japanese species assigned to the genus Otacilia (Araneae: Phrurolithidae), with a description of a new genus. Acta Arachnologica 71(2): 135-140. DOI: 10.2476/asjaa.71.135 . Reference page. 
• Lin, Y.J., Li, S.Q. & Pham, D.S. 2023. Taxonomic notes on some spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from China and Vietnam. Zoological Systematics 48(1): 1–99. DOI: 10.11865/zs.2023101 . Reference page.