ERESIDAE C.L. Koch

Judson, Mark L. I., 2012, Status of the family-group names of Arachnida first published in Band I, Abtheilung 1 of Berendt’s Die im Bernstein befindlichen organischen Reste der Vorwelt (1845), Journal of Natural History 46 (19 - 20), pp. 1273-1282 : 1276-1277

Family ERESIDAE C.L. Koch in Berendt, 1845

Erisidae [sic] C.L. Koch in Berendt, 1845, p. 56 (table). Incorrect original spelling.

Eresidae C.L. Koch in Berendt, 1845: C.L. Koch in Anonymous, 1846, p. 872 (table); Koch & Berendt, 1854, pp. 6 (table), 86. Justified emendation.

Eresides C.L. Koch in Berendt, 1845: C.L. Koch, 1851, p. 70.

Type genus. Eresus Walckenaer, 1805 .

Remarks

Authorship of Eresidae has previously been attributed to C.L. Koch, 1850 or 1851 ( Kaston 1938; Bonnet 1956; Dunlop, Penney and Jekel 2012; Platnick 2012). This name appeared in the vernacular form “Eresides” in the fifth Heft of C.L. Koch’s Übersicht des Arachnidensystems, which bears the date “1850” on its cover, but some authors consider it to have been published in 1851. The 1851 date is probably correct because the Übersicht was consistently advertised with the dates “1837–1851” in the lists of titles printed on the wrappers of other works available from the same publisher (J.L. Lotzbeck), such as C.L. Koch (1854–1857), Herrich-Schäffer (1853) and L. Koch (1866 –1867). The coordinate names Eresidae C.L. Koch in Berendt, 1845 (first emended by Koch in Anonymous (1846)) and Eresoidea C.L. Koch in Berendt, 1845 are currently in use and clearly have priority over other attributions.