Collina glabicira Urquhart, 1891

W. Framenau, Volker, 2019, Generic and family transfers, and numina dubia for orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Araneidae) in the Australasian, Oriental and Pacific regions, Evolutionary Systematics 3 (1), pp. 1-27 : 17-18

Collina glabicira Urquhart, 1891

Collina glabicira Urquhart, 1891: 247-249, fig. 4 (figure not present in any copies examined).

Type material.

Holotype of Collina glabicira Urquhart, 1891: Female, no exact locality, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA, Alex Morton (whereabouts unknown).

Remarks.

The holotype female of C. glabicira could not be found during my extensive examinations of Australian collections and does not appear to be present in the CMNZ where types of the A. T. Urquhart collection are lodged ( Nicholls et al. 2000; Paquin et al. 2008). It was also not possible to unequivocally identify any of the orb-weaving spiders examined from Tasmania (or south-eastern mainland Australia) as C. glabicira . None of the printed or electronic copies of Urquhart (1891) that I examined contained fig. 4 supposedly illustrating the species and it is likely that the plate containing the figure was never printed. As it is not possible to identify the species based on the description alone, I consider the species-group name C. glabicira Urquhart, 1891 a nomen dubium which therefore also renders the genus-group name Collina Urquhart, 1891 a nomen dubium.