World Spider Catalog

Hersiliidae Thorell, 1869

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: Marusik, 2023a: 364 regards the mentioning of "Herseliens" by Simon, 1864: 342 as valid, but the French ending -iens was not accepted as taxon at familiar level by Bonnet and Platnick, and this continued here.

Gen. Neotama M. Baehr & B. Baehr, 1993 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03344

N.B.: considered by Wunderlich, 2004d: 816 to be a junior synonym of the fossil genus Fictotama Petrunkevitch, 1963, and by Penney, 2006: 900 to be a junior synonym of the fossil genus Prototama Petrunkevitch, 1971.

In synonymy:

Neotama guyanensis (Mello-Leitão, 1948, T from Tama) = Neotama mexicana O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893 (Rheims & Brescovit, 2004a: 211)

Neotama corticola (Lawrence, 1937) | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006019

Hersilia corticola Lawrence, 1937: 226, f. 7 (Df) Original description

Hersilia corticola Smithers, 1945: 5, f. 5d (f)

Hersilia corticola Benoit, 1967b: 15, f. 1 (f)

Neotama corticola Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005b: 128, f. 1-7 (Dm, f, T from Hersilia)

Neotama corticola Foord, 2008: 127, f. 23, 69-72 (mf)

Neotama corticola Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020e: 12, 7 f. (mf)

Neotama cunhabebe Rheims & Brescovit, 2004 | | Peru, Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039724

Neotama cunhabebe Rheims & Brescovit, 2004a: 214, f. 6, 18, 67-73 (Dmf) Original description

Neotama forcipata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) | | Mexico to El Salvador urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006092

Tama forcipata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 351, pl. 33, f. 7 (Dm) Original description

Tama forcipata Schawaller, 1981: 8, f. 7-8 (m)

Neotama forcipata Rheims & Brescovit, 2004a: 213, f. 16, 29, 62-66 (m, T from Tama)

Neotama longimana M. Baehr & B. Baehr, 1993 | | Indonesia (Java, Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006077

Neotama longimana Baehr & Baehr, 1993b: 71, f. 13, 46a-f (Dmf) Original description

Neotama mexicana (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893) | | USA to Peru, Guyana urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006098

Hersilia mexicana O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893b: 107, pl. 14, f. 6-7 (Dmf) Original description

Tama mexicana Banks, 1898b: 211

Tama mexicana F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 351, pl. 33, f. 5-6 (mf)

Tama guyanensis Mello-Leitão, 1948: 155, f. 3 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006093]

Tama mexicana Wunderlich, 1988: 90, f. 169-171 (m)

Neotama mexicana Rheims & Brescovit, 2004a: 211, f. 5, 15, 31-32, 37, 55-61 (mf, T from Tama, S of Tama guyanensis)

Neotama obatala Rheims & Brescovit, 2004 | | Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Guyana urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039725

Neotama obatala Rheims & Brescovit, 2004a: 215, f. 17, 74-80 (Dmf) Original description

Neotama obatala Zamani & Marusik, 2024b: 696, f. 2A-C (mf)

Neotama punctigera M. Baehr & B. Baehr, 1993 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006078

Neotama punctigera Baehr & Baehr, 1993b: 73, f. 47e-f (Df) Original description

Neotama rothorum M. Baehr & B. Baehr, 1993 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006079

Neotama rothorum Baehr & Baehr, 1993b: 74, f. 48e-f (Df) Original description

Neotama variata (Pocock, 1899) | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006080

Tama variata Pocock, 1899d: 751 (Df) Original description

Tama variata Pocock, 1900a: 242 (Dm)

Neotama variata Baehr & Baehr, 1993b: 69, f. 45c-f (mf, T from Tama)

Neotama variata Baehr, 1998: 63, f. 1c (m)