World Spider Catalog

Microstigmatidae Roewer, 1942

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: elevated to family status by Raven & Platnick, 1981: 14 and is composed of the subfamilies Microstigmatinae and Micromygalinae Platnick & Forster, 1982 (Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019: 2); newly circumscribed by Opatova et al., 2020: 702 and by Montes de Oca et al., 2022: 15.

Transferred to other families:

Xenonemesia Goloboff, 1989 -- see Pycnothelidae

In synonymy:

Microstigma Hewitt, 1916 = Microstigmata Strand, 1932 (Strand, 1932: 142, preoccupied, replacement name)

Homonym replaced:

Microstigma Hewitt, 1916 -- see Microstigmata Strand, 1932 - in Strand, 1932

Gen. Angka Raven & Schwendinger, 1995 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00050

N.B.: transferred from the Cyrtaucheniidae to the Microstigmatidae by Opatova et al., 2020: 700.

Angka hexops Raven & Schwendinger, 1995 | | Thailand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000456

Angka hexops Raven & Schwendinger, 1995: 629, f. 2A-B, 3A, D, 4A, 5B, 6A-L (Dmf) Original description

Gen. Envia Ott & Höfer, 2004 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03549

Envia garciai Ott & Höfer, 2004 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038366

Envia garciai Ott & Höfer, 2004: 374, f. 1-21 (Dmf) Original description

Envia moleque Miglio & Bonaldo, 2011 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044255

Envia moleque Miglio & Bonaldo, 2011: 35, f. 1-12, 15-26 (Dmf) Original description

Gen. Ixamatus Simon, 1887 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00118

N.B.: replacement name for Ixalus, preoccuppied in Mammalia (Artiodactyla) by Ogilby, 1836; transferred from the Dipluridae to the Nemesidae by Raven, 1985a: 89 and to the Microstigmatidae by Opatova et al., 2020: 701 (after Harvey et al., 2018).

Transferred to other genera:

Ixamatus distinctus Rainbow, 1914 -- see Aname

Ixamatus flavomaculatus (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) -- see Namea

Ixamatus gregori Hogg, 1901 -- see Stanwellia

Ixamatus maculatus Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 -- see Aname

Ixamatus barina Raven, 1982 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001145

Ixamatus barina Raven, 1982b: 1041, f. 1, 9-10, 12, 19, 28, 38-39, 52, 61, 72 (Dmf) Original description

Ixamatus broomi Hogg, 1901 | | Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001146

Ixamatus broomi Hogg, 1901: 260, f. 34 (Dm) Original description

Ixamatus broomi Raven, 1982b: 1045, f. 13, 20, 24, 33, 40-41, 53, 64, 67, 69 (m, Df)

Ixamatus caldera Raven, 1982 | | Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001147

Ixamatus caldera Raven, 1982b: 1049, f. 2, 15, 21, 29, 34, 47, 50, 54, 60, 71 (Dmf) Original description

Ixamatus candidus Raven, 1982 | | Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001148

Ixamatus candidus Raven, 1982b: 1051, f. 14, 22, 30, 35, 42, 51, 55, 63, 68, 73 (Dmf) Original description

Ixamatus fischeri Raven, 1982 | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001149

Ixamatus fischeri Raven, 1982b: 1055, f. 3, 7, 16, 23, 31, 36, 43-44, 56, 65, 70 (Dmf) Original description

Ixamatus lornensis Raven, 1985 | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001150

Ixamatus lornensis Raven, 1985d: 286, f. 1-7 (Dm) Original description

Ixamatus musgravei Raven, 1982 | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001151

Ixamatus musgravei Raven, 1982b: 1058, f. 4, 17, 25, 32, 37, 45-46, 57, 62, 66, 74 (Dmf) Original description

Ixamatus rozefeldsi Raven, 1985 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001152

Ixamatus rozefeldsi Raven, 1985d: 288, f. 8-14 (Dm) Original description

Ixamatus varius (L. Koch, 1873) | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001153

Ixalus varius L. Koch, 1873: 469, pl. 36, f. 2 (Dmf) Original description

Ixamatus varius Simon, 1887d: 195

Hapalothele varia Hogg, 1900: 78

Ixamatus varius Raven, 1980b: 45, f. 1-10 (mf)

Ixamatus varius Raven, 1981c: 338, f. 50, 63, 67 (f)

Ixamatus varius Raven, 1982b: 1062, f. 5

Ixamatus webbae Raven, 1982 | | Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001154

Ixamatus webbae Raven, 1982b: 1062, f. 6, 8, 18, 26-27, 48-49, 58-59, 75 (Dmf) Original description

Ixamatus webbi Platnick, 1989b: 86 (lapsus)

Gen. Kiama Main & Mascord, 1969 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00059

N.B.: transferred from the Dipluridae to the Cyrtaucheniidae by Raven, 1985a: 130, to the Nemesiidae by Bond & Hedin, in Bond et al., 2012b: 10, and to the Microstigmatidae by Opatova et al., 2020: 701.

Kiama lachrymoides Main & Mascord, 1969 | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000510

Kiama lachrymoides Main & Mascord, 1969: 25, f. 1-19 (Dmf) Original description

Kiama lachrymoides Raven, 1981c: 340, f. 61

Gen. Micromygale Platnick & Forster, 1982 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00142

N.B.: placed in a monogeneric family by Wunderlich, 2004a: 619, originally and confirmed in the subfamily Micromygalinae Platnick & Forster, 1982 by Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019: 2.

Micromygale diblemma Platnick & Forster, 1982 | | Panama urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001343

Micromygale diblemma Platnick & Forster, 1982: 11, f. 2-15, 17-18, 23-28 (Dmf) Original description

Gen. Microstigmata Strand, 1932 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00143

N.B.: replacement name for Microstigma Hewitt, 1916b: 206 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05811], preoccupied in Neuroptera by Rambur, 1842; transferred from the Dipluridae to the Microstigmatidae by Raven & Platnick, 1981: 15.

Microstigmata amatola Griswold, 1985 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001344

Microstigmata amatola Griswold, 1985a: 30, f. 4, 10, 15, 44, 54-59 (Dmf) Original description

Microstigmata amatola Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2002: 79, f. 49d, i (mf)

Microstigmata amatola Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021m: 5, 6 f. (m, f habitus)

Microstigmata geophila (Hewitt, 1916) | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001345

Microstigma geophilum Hewitt, 1916b: 206, f. 8 (Df) Original description

Microstigma geophilum Hewitt, 1925: 286, f. II, 2-3 (Dm)

Microstigmata geophilum Strand, 1932: 142 (generic replacement name)

Microstigmata geophilum Griswold, 1985a: 33, f. 1-2, 11, 16, 18, 42, 60-65 (mf)

Microstigmata geophila Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2002: 79, f. 49c, h (mf)

Microstigmata geophila Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021m: 6, 2 f. (m)

Microstigmata lawrencei Griswold, 1985 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001346

Microstigmata lawrencei Griswold, 1985a: 29, f. 29, 46 (Df) Original description

Microstigmata lawrencei Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2002: 79, f. 49g (f)

Microstigmata lawrencei Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021m: 7, 1 f. (f)

Microstigmata longipes (Lawrence, 1938) | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001347

Microstigma longipes Lawrence, 1938a: 463, f. 4a-b, d (Dmf) Original description

Microstigmata longipes Griswold, 1985a: 17, f. 3, 5-6, 9, 13, 17, 20-28, 30-35 (mf)

Microstigmata longipes Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2002: 80, f. 49e (m)

Microstigmata longipes Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021m: 8, p 3: 1 f., p. 8: 5 f. (m, f habitus)

Microstigmata ukhahlamba Griswold, 1985 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001348

Microstigmata ukhahlamba Griswold, 1985a: 25, f. 44, 47-53 (Dmf) Original description

Microstigmata ukhahlamba Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021m: 9, 4 f. (m, f habitus)

Microstigmata zuluensis (Lawrence, 1938) | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001349

Microstigma zuluense Lawrence, 1938a: 461, f. 3a-b, 4c (Dmf) Original description

Microstigmata zuluense Griswold, 1985a: 22, f. 7-8, 12, 14, 36-41, 43, 45 (mf)

Microstigmata zuluense Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2002: 80, f. 49f (m)

Microstigmata zuluensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021m: 10, 2 f. (m)

Gen. Ministigmata Raven & Platnick, 1981 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00144

Ministigmata minuta Raven & Platnick, 1981 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001350

Ministigmata minuta Raven & Platnick, 1981: 15, f. 7-8, 12, 15, 23-24, 26, 30, 34, 38, 41-44, 53 (Dmf) Original description

Ministigmata minuta Platnick & Forster, 1982: 10, f. 21

Gen. Pseudonemesia Caporiacco, 1955 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00145

N.B.: transferred from the Ctenizidae to the Microstigmatidae by Raven & Platnick, 1981: 17.

Pseudonemesia kochalkai Raven & Platnick, 1981 | | Colombia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001351

Pseudonemesia kochalkai Raven & Platnick, 1981: 18, f. 6, 14, 16, 28, 32, 36, 40, 46-48, 54 (Dmf) Original description

Pseudonemesia parva Caporiacco, 1955 | | Venezuela urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001352

Pseudonemesia parva Caporiacco, 1955: 266 (Df) Original description

Pseudonemesia parva Raven & Platnick, 1981: 17, f. 5, 13, 27, 31, 35, 45, 49-52 (f, Dm)

Pseudonemesia tabiskey Indicatti & Villareal M., 2016 | | Venezuela urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048644

Pseudonemesia tabiskey Indicatti & Villarreal M., 2016: 2156, f. 1-9 (Dmf) Original description

Gen. Spelocteniza Gertsch, 1982 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00146

N.B.: transferred from the the Ctenizidae to the the Nemesiidae by Raven, 1985a: 110 and to the Microstigmatidae by Goloboff, 1995: 5.

Spelocteniza ashmolei Gertsch, 1982 | | Ecuador urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001353

Spelocteniza ashmolei Gertsch, 1982a: 85, f. 8-9 (Df) Original description

Gen. Tonton Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04503

Tonton emboaba (Pedroso, Baptista & Bertani, 2015) | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047725

Masteria emboaba Pedroso, Baptista & Bertani, 2015: 60, f. 1-16 (Dmf) Original description

Masteria emboaba Passanha & Brescovit, 2018: 9 (misplaced in Masteria and Masteriinae, belongs to Micromygalinae)

Tonton emboaba Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019: 26, f. 2E-F, 12A-G (mf, T from Masteria)

Tonton ipiau Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050835

Tonton ipiau Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019: 21, f. 2A-D, 10A-G (Dmf) Original description

Tonton itabirito Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050831

Tonton itabirito Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019: 6, f. 3A-G, 4A-F, 13B (Dmf) Original description

Tonton matodentro Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050833

Tonton matodentro Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019: 13, f. 7A-H, 8A-D (Dmf) Original description

Tonton queca Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050832

Tonton queca Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019: 10, f. 5A-F, 6A-D (Dmf) Original description

Tonton quiteria Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050836

Tonton quiteria Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019: 24, f. 11A-F (Dmf) Original description

Tonton sapalo Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050834

Tonton sapalo Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019: 19, f. 9A-H (Dmf) Original description

Gen. Xamiatus Raven, 1981 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00140

N.B.: transferred from the Dipluridae to the Nemesiidae by Raven, 1985a: 90 and to the Microstigmatidae by Opatova et al., 2020: 701, based on the morphological similarity with Ixamatus and Kiama (see Raven, 1985a).

Xamiatus bulburin Raven, 1981 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001337

Xamiatus bulburin Raven, 1981c: 349, f. 21, 25, 31, 37, 39 (Dm) Original description

Xamiatus ilara Raven, 1982 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001338

Xamiatus ilara Raven, 1982a: 475, f. 5-12 (Dmf) Original description

Xamiatus kia Raven, 1981 | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001339

Xamiatus kia Raven, 1981c: 358, f. 20, 26, 32, 36, 40 (Dm) Original description

Xamiatus kia Raven, 1982a: 463, f. 2-4 (Df)

Xamiatus magnificus Raven, 1981 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001340

Xamiatus magnificus Raven, 1981c: 352, f. 19, 23, 28, 33-35, 42, 52 (Dmf) Original description

Xamiatus rubrifrons Raven, 1981 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001341

Xamiatus rubrifrons Raven, 1981c: 344, f. 17-18, 24, 29, 38, 41, 43, 51, 57, 62, 66-68 (Dmf) Original description