
Lathys is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by Eugène Simon in 1884. It is a replacement name for "Lethia" Menge, 1869 because that name was already in use as a synonym for a genus of moths.
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Lathys is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by Eugène Simon in 1884. It is a replacement name for "Lethia" Menge, 1869 because that name was already in use as a synonym for a genus of moths.
==Species== , this genus includes fifteen species and one subspecies: Lathys adunca Liu, 2018 – China Lathys albida Gertsch, 1946 – United States Lathys bin Marusik & Logunov, 1991 – Russia (Kurile Islands) Lathys borealis Z. S. Zhang, Hu & Y. G. Zhang, 2012 – China Lathys brevitibialis Denis, 1956 – Morocco Lathys coralynae Gertsch & Davis, 1942 – Mexico Lathys dixiana Ivie & Barrows, 1935 – United States Lathys foxi (Marx, 1891) – Canada, United States Lathys heterophthalma Kulczyński, 1891 – Europe, Russia (Europe to West Siberia) Lathys humilis (Blackwall, 1855) – Europe, Algeria, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, Central Asia. Introduced to Canada L. h. meridionalis (Simon, 1874) – Spain, France (incl. Corsica), North Africa Lathys mantarota Wunderlich, 2022 – Portugal Lathys sexpustulata (Simon, 1878) – Spain, France, Morocco Lathys simplicior (Dalmas, 1916) – Algeria Lathys sindi (Caporiacco, 1934) – Pakistan (Karakorum) Lathys subhumilis Z. S. Zhang, Hu & Y. G. Zhang, 2012 – China
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