World Spider Catalog

Liphistiidae Thorell, 1869

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: this spelling (not Lipistiidae) on the Official List of Family and Generic Names in Zoology; considered a senior synonym of Heptathelidae Kishida, 1923: 242 by Raven, 1985a: 16, confirmed by Breitling, 2022a: 3 and Sivayyapram et al., 2024b: 254 (by majority vote of the WSC boards), rejecting Petrunkevitch, 1939a: 149, Haupt, 1983: 289, Li, 2022: 72 and Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 485, f. 5; Kishida, 1923: 242 erected the subfamily Anadiasthothelinae, which became a synonym of Liphistiidae by the synonymy of the type genus Anadiastothele Simon, 1903 with Liphistius Schiødte, 1849 by Bristowe, 1933a: 1030 (by transfer of the type species).

Gen. Ryuthela Haupt, 1983 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03547

N.B.: transferred from the Liphistiidae to the Heptathelidae by Li, 2022: 72; considered a junior synonym of Heptathela Kishida, 1923 by Raven, 1985a: 163, but monophyly argued by Haupt, 2003: 91 and confirmed by Xu et al., 2017c: 884.

In synonymy:

Ryuthela secundaria Ono, 1997 = Ryuthela sasakii Ono, 1997 (Tanikawa, 2013a: 38)

Ryuthela banna Xu, Liu, Ono, Chen, Kuntner & Li, 2017 | | Japan (Ryukyu Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049769

Ryuthela banna Xu et al., 2017c: 899, f. 16A-L (Dmf) Original description

Ryuthela henoko Xu, Liu, Ono, Chen, Kuntner & Li, 2017 | | Japan (Ryukyu Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049763

Ryuthela henoko Xu et al., 2017c: 886, f. 6A-D (Df) Original description

Ryuthela hirakubo Xu, Liu, Ono, Chen, Kuntner & Li, 2017 | | Japan (Ryukyu Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049770

Ryuthela hirakubo Xu et al., 2017c: 901, f. 17A-G (Dmf) Original description

Ryuthela iheyana Ono, 2002 | | Japan (Ryukyu Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037419

Ryuthela iheyana Ono, 2002a: 52, f. 1-3 (Df) Original description

Ryuthela iheyana Ono, 2009a: 80, f. 1, 7-8 (f)

Ryuthela iheyana Tanikawa, 2013a: 34, f. 2D-F, 3D-F, 4D-F, 5, 6A-E (f, Dm)

Ryuthela iheyana Xu et al., 2017c: 893, f. 12A-J (mf)

Ryuthela ishigakiensis Haupt, 1983 | | Japan (Ryukyu Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000011

Ryuthela nishihirai ishigakiensis Haupt, 1983: 287, f. 9f, 10c-d, 12f, 13h (Dmf) Original description

Ryuthela ishigakiensis Ono, 1997b: 150 (elevated from subspecies)

Ryuthela nishihirai ishigakiensis Haupt, 2003: 71, f. 48C-D, 52C-E, 53.25-33, 62B (mf)

Ryuthela ishigakiensis Ono, 2009a: 80, f. 33-37 (mf)

Ryuthela ishigakiensis Tanikawa, 2013a: 38, f. 2J-L, 3J-L, 4J-L (mf, S)

Ryuthela ishigakiensis Xu et al., 2015a: 137, f. 28-30 (m)

Ryuthela ishigakiensis Xu et al., 2017c: 899, f. 15A-K (mf)

Ryuthela kisenbaru Xu, Liu, Ono, Chen, Kuntner & Li, 2017 | | Japan (Ryukyu Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049764

Ryuthela kisenbaru Xu et al., 2017c: 887, f. 7A-D (Df) Original description

Ryuthela motobu Xu, Liu, Ono, Chen, Kuntner & Li, 2017 | | Japan (Ryukyu Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049765

Ryuthela motobu Xu et al., 2017c: 888, f. 8A-N (Dmf) Original description

Ryuthela nago Xu, Liu, Ono, Chen, Kuntner & Li, 2017 | | Japan (Ryukyu Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049766

Ryuthela nago Xu et al., 2017c: 890, f. 9A-I (Df) Original description

Ryuthela nishihirai (Haupt, 1979) | | Japan (Ryukyu Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000017

Heptathela nishihirai Haupt, 1979: 356, f. 6a-d, 7a-b, 8a-b, 9a-c, 10, 12a-c (Dmf) Original description

Heptathela nishihirai Yaginuma, 1979c: 1, f. 2 (m)

Heptathela nishihirai Yaginuma, 1980c: 44, f. 2 (m)

Ryuthela nishihirai Haupt, 1983: 286, f. 9g-h, 10a-b, 11b, 12b, 12e, 13g (Tmf from Heptathela)

Ryuthela nishihirai Haupt, 1984: 164, f. 3, 5 (m)

Ryuthela nishihirai Kraus, 1984: 375, f. 2 (m)

Heptathela nishihirai Yaginuma, 1986a: 2, f. 1.2 (m)

Heptathela nishihirai Chikuni, 1989b: 18, f. 2 (m)

Heptathela nishihirai Yoo & Kim, 2002a: 28, f. 47 (m)

Ryuthela nishihirai Haupt, 2003: 71, f. 43H, 48A-B, 52A-B, 53.1-24, 55.7-9, 62A (mf)

Ryuthela nishihirai Ono, 2009a: 80, f. 26-32 (mf)

Ryuthela nishihirai Tanikawa, 2013a: 33, f. 2A-C, 3A-C, 4A-C (mf)

Ryuthela nishihirai Xu et al., 2015a: 137, f. 31-32 (f)

Ryuthela nishihirai Xu et al., 2017c: 884, f. 5A-Z (mf)

Ryuthela owadai Ono, 1997 | | Japan (Ryukyu Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000019

Ryuthela owadai Ono, 1997b: 155, f. 15-18 (Dm) Original description

Ryuthela owadai Ono, 2001a: 151, f. 1-3 (Df)

Ryuthela owadai Ono, 2009a: 80, f. 19-25 (mf)

Ryuthela owadai Schwendinger & Ono, 2011: 616, f. 48-50 (m)

Ryuthela owadai Xu et al., 2017c: 895, f. 13A-L (mf) [removed from S of R. sasakii, contra Tanikawa, 2013a: 38]

Ryuthela sasakii Ono, 1997 | | Japan (Ryukyu Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000020

Ryuthela sasakii Ono, 1997b: 151, f. 1-8 (Dmf) Original description

Ryuthela secundaria Ono, 1997b: 153, f. 9-10 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000022]

Ryuthela sasakii Ono, 2009a: 80, f. 9-14 (mf)

Ryuthela secundaria Ono, 2009a: 80, f. 15-18 (f)

Ryuthela sasakii Tanikawa, 2013a: 38, f. 2G-I, 3G-I, 4G-I, 6F-Y (mf, S of R. secundaria and R. owadai)

Ryuthela sasakii Xu et al., 2015a: 137, f. 33-34 (f)

Ryuthela sasakii Xu et al., 2017c: 895, f. 14A-R (mf)

Ryuthela sasakii Suzuki, 2022f: 104, f. 1-2 (f)

Ryuthela shimojanai Xu, Liu, Ono, Chen, Kuntner & Li, 2017 | | Japan (Ryukyu Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049767

Ryuthela shimojanai Xu et al., 2017c: 890, f. 10A-D (Df) Original description

Ryuthela tanikawai Ono, 1997 | | Japan (Ryukyu Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000024

Ryuthela tanikawai Ono, 1997b: 157, f. 19-20 (Df) Original description

Ryuthela tanikawai Ono, 2009a: 80, f. 38-40 (f)

Ryuthela tanikawai Dunlop, Steffensen & Ono, 2014: 39 (removed Sf from R. ishigakiensis, contra Tanikawa, 2013a: 38)

Ryuthela tanikawai Xu et al., 2017c: 905, f. 19A-D (f)

Ryuthela unten Xu, Liu, Ono, Chen, Kuntner & Li, 2017 | | Japan (Ryukyu Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049768

Ryuthela unten Xu et al., 2017c: 892, f. 11A-H (Df) Original description

Ryuthela yarabu Xu, Liu, Ono, Chen, Kuntner & Li, 2017 | | Japan (Ryukyu Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049771

Ryuthela yarabu Xu et al., 2017c: 904, f. 18A-B (Df) Original description