Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Family |   ACCEPTED
N.B.: the names Gnaphosae and Gnaphosi were used firstly at tribe level by Banks, 1892d: 92, 94 and thus Banks, 1892 is the valid authorship and year for the family, not Pocock, 1898c: 219; for the family name Drassidae Sundevall, 1833 see Simon, 1893a: 340 and Bonnet, 1956: 1554. Family relimited by Platnick, 1990a: 35 and Azevedo, Griswold & Santos, 2018b: 612; most genera listed by Brignoli, 1983c under Micariinae are treated here under Corinnidae and Phrurolithidae. Prodidomidae revalidated by Platnick, 1990a: 36 to include the former Prodidominae, Molycriinae and Anagraphidinae; Anagraphidinae transferred from Prodidomidae to Gnaphosidae by Platnick & Baehr, 2006: 5; Prodidomidae downgraded to subfamily of Gnaphosidae by Azevedo, Griswold & Santos, 2018b: 613 (synonyms: Molycriinae Simon, 1897 and Theuminae Simon, 1893), redefined by Rodrigues & Rheims, 2020b: 694 and elevated to familiy rank again by Azevedo et al., 2022: 12 (without Molycriinae); Azevedo, Griswold & Santos, 2018b: 612 distinguish several well definded clades within Gnaphosidae (Gnaphosinae Banks, 1892, Zelotinae Platnick, 1990, Herpyllinae Platnick, 1990, Drassodinae Simon, 1893, Prodidominae Simon, 1884 and Leptodrassinae Azevedo, Griswold & Santos, 2018) and state three monogeneric subfamilies, Anagraphidinae Simon, 1893 (type genus Anagraphis), Echeminae Simon, 1893 (type genus Echemus) and Micariinae Banks, 1892 (type genus Micaria), which do not perform a grouping function; Micaria Westring 1851, Nauhea Forster, 1979 and Verita Ramirez & Grismado, 2015 (and some related genera) are probably not gnaphosids, and many genera are not assigned to a subfamily given their poorly supported and unstable relationships (Azevedo, Griswold & Santos, 2018b: 614); the subfamily Molycriinae Simon, 1897 is re-established by Rodrigues & Rheims, 2020b: 682 (includes Cryptotoerithus, Molycria, Myandra, Nomindra, Wesmaldra and Wydundra); Lin & Li, 2020e: 313 described the new subfamily Solitudinae, with the single genus Solitudes Lin & Li, 2020; Micariidae is regarded as a separate family (sister to Cithaeronidae) by Breitling, 2021: 19, but without listing the genera, which should belong to it, and it is also not accepted because it is based mainly on COI, see FAQ 7; Ammoxenidae (Ammoxenus, Austrammo, Barrowammo, Rastellus) are synonymized with Gnaphosidae by Azevedo et al., 2022: 12; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 520, f. 19.
Gen. Trichothyse Tucker, 1923 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02492
Trichothyse africana (Tucker, 1923) | | Mozambique, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027451
Latonigena africana Tucker, 1923: 383, pl. 11, f. 83 (Df) Original description
"Latonigena" africanus Murphy, 2007: 52, f. 358-359 (f, probably to Trichothyse)
Trichothyse africana Ott, Rodrigues & Brescovit, 2012: 238 (T to Trichothyse, after Murphy, 2007: 52)
Trichothyse africana Lissner & Chatzaki, 2016c: 17, f. 2D, 4F (f)
Trichothyse africana Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021D: 27, 4 f. (f)
Trichothyse fontensis Lawrence, 1928 | | Namibia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028040
Trichothyse fontensis Lawrence, 1928: 232, pl. 21, f. 14 (Dm) Original description
Trichothyse hortensis Tucker, 1923 | | Namibia, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028041
Trichothyse hortensis Tucker, 1923: 332, pl. 9, f. 53 (Df) Original description
Trichothyse hortensis Murphy, 2007: 50, f. 382-383 (f; N.B.: see also f. 384-385)
Trichothyse hortensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021D: 28, 7 f. (f)
Trichothyse subtropica Lawrence, 1927 | | Namibia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028042
Trichothyse subtropica Lawrence, 1927: 15, pl. 1, f. 15 (Df) Original description

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