Artema atlanta Walckenaer, 1837 Artema atlanta Walckenaer, 1837: 656. F.O. Pickard-Cambridge 1902: 366, pl. 34, figs. 15–16. Petrunkevitch 1929: 119, figs. 102–104. Chrysanthus 1967: 92, figs. 15–19. Brignoli 1981: 92, figs. 1–7. Saaristo 2001: 15, figs. 16–22. Artema mauriciana Walckenaer, 1837: 657. Millot 1946: 129, fig. 1. Synonymized by F.O. Pickard-Cambridge (1902). Pholcus sisyphoides Doleschall, 1857: 408. Synonymized by F.O. Pickard-Cambridge (1902). Artema convexa Blackwall, 1858: 332. Synonymized by Simon (1885). Pholcus borbonicus Vinson, 1863: 132. Synonymized by Simon (1885). Pholcus rotundatus Karsch, 1879: 106. Synonymized by Simon (1893b). Crossopriza sexsignata Franganillo Balboa, 1926: 49. Synonymized by Pérez González (1996). Coroia magna González-Sponga, 2005: 102, pl. 2, figs. 1–11; new synonymy. Justification of synonymy. We have not re-examined the type specimens (from Falcón State, Venezuela) but González-Sponga’s drawings show all the distinctive characters of this species (armature of chelicerae; shape of palp and of bulbal processes; shape of epigynal sclerites). In addition, Artema is an Old World genus, and A. atlanta is the only species that has attained a pantropical distribution (including numerous New World records, e.g. Walckenaer 1837; Blackwall 1858; Karsch 1879; Petrunkevitch 1929; Brignoli 1981).

Published as part of Huber, Bernhard A., Colmenares, Pío A. & Ramirez, Martin J., 2014, Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae, pp. 413-422 in Zootaxa 3847 (3) on page 417, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/231498