World Spider Catalog

Dysderidae C. L. Koch, 1837

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: Cooke, 1965: 2028 divided the family in four tribes ("Dysderini, Harpactini, Orsolobini and Rhodini"), of which three were regarded as subfamilies later on and Orsolobini was elevated to family status and relimited by Forster & Platnick, 1985: 6.

Gen. Minotauria Kulczyński, 1903 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00492

N.B.: the synonymy of this genus with Stalita Schiödte, 1847 by Cooke, 1965: 1027 has not been followed by subsequent workers.

Transferred to other genera:

Minotauria catholica Brignoli, 1984 -- see Harpactea

Minotauria cretica (Roewer, 1928) -- see Stalagtia

In synonymy:

Minotauria vallei (Brignoli, 1976, T from Harpactea) = Minotauria attemsi Kulczyński, 1903 (Gasparo, 2004b: 53)

Minotauria attemsi Kulczyński, 1903 | | Greece (Crete) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004767

Minotauria attemsi Kulczyński, 1903a: 39, pl. 1, f. 2-3 (Dmf) Original description

Harpactea vallei Brignoli, 1976b: 552, f. 24 (Df)

Minotauria attemsi Deeleman-Reinhold, 1993a: 126, f. 37-42 (mf)

Minotauria attemsi Gasparo, 2004b: 53, f. 1-5, 10-12, 16-17 (mf, S)

Minotauria attemsi Le Peru, 2011: 288, f. 480 (mf)

Minotauria fagei (Kratochvíl, 1970) | | Greece (Crete) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004768

Stalita cretica Fage, 1945a: 110, f. 1 (m, misidentified)

Stalagtia (Folkia) cretica fagei Kratochvíl, 1970: 48, f. 3d, 24c (Tm from M. c., Df) Original description

Minotauria cretica fagei Brignoli, 1974b: 161 (Tmf from Folkia)

Minotauria attemsi fagei Deeleman-Reinhold, 1993a: 126, f. 43-45 (mf, T from subspecies of M. cretica = Stalagtia hercegovinensis)

Minotauria fagei Gasparo, 2004b: 57, f. 6-9, 13-15, 18-19 (mf, elevated to species)

Minotauria fagei Le Peru, 2011: 288, f. 481 (mf)