Heurodes turritus Keyserling, 1886

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 : 14-15

Heurodes turritus Keyserling, 1886 Fig. 10B

Heurodes turrita Keyserling, 1886: 116-118, pl. 9, fig. 3. Rainbow 1911: 196; Davies 1988: 300, fig. 25.

Araneus turrita (Keyserling). Simon 1895: 820.

Type material.

Holotype of Heurodes turritus Keyserling, 1886: immature, Sydney [33°53'S, 151°13'E, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA), 'e. Mus. God.; det. Keyserling’ (ZMH Rack (1961) -catalog 384) (examined).

Remarks.

The type specimen of H. turritus is a juvenile collected in Sydney, New South Wales. It has a distinctly elevated abdomen (Fig. 10B) and based on this feature the genus was previously associated with Eriovixia . However, there are a number of species in south-eastern Australia with such elevated abdomen and currently referred to Acroaspis (e.g. Framenau et al. 2014). It is therefore impossible to identify H. turritus and the species is here considered nomen dubium. As H. turritus is the type species of Heurodes , this also renders the genus-group name Heurodes a nomen dubium.