World Spider Catalog

Pisauridae Simon, 1890

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: the Dolomedidae (incl. Bradystichidae) are removed from the synonymy by Morris, Hazzi & Hormiga, 2025: 8, confirmed by Yu et al., 2025: 431 (confirming Lehtinen, 1967: 231, rejecting Sierwald, 1990: 50); Sierwald, 1990: 50 recognized also a "Trechalea genus group [that] is not a close relative of the nursery-web Pisauridae" and whose members are now listed under Trechaleidae; considered a synonym of Halidae Jocqué, 1994b: 281 by Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006: 212 (confirmed by Polotow, Carmichael & Griswold, 2015); probably includes Senoculidae per Murphy & Roberts, 2015: ix; Morris, Hazzi & Hormiga, 2025: 8 list three subfamilies (Halinae Jocqué, 1994: Hala, Tolma; Thaumasiinae Petrunkevitch, 1928: Architis, Thaumasia; Pisaurinae: Cladycnis, Dendrolycosa, Nilus, Paracladycnis, Perenethis, Pisaura, Pisaurina, Sphedanus) and numerous genera are deemed incertae sedis in terms of their subfamilial placement; Blandinia Tonini, Silva, Filho & Freitas, 2016 is excluded from the Pisauridae by Yu et al., 2025: 431 ("incertae sedis"), but not included into another family.

Nomina dubia

Ocyale Audouin, 1826, type O. atalanta Audouin, 1826 -- Sherwood, 2022c: 583

Gen. Ocyale Audouin, 1826 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01641

type Ocyale atalanta Audouin, 1826; gender feminine

N.B.: type species is O. atalanta Audouin, 1826, a nomen dubium (at species level, see Alderweireldt, 1996: 1351); considered a senior synonym of Hippasosa Roewer, 1960d: 1003 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01623] (type H. pilosa Roewer, 1960) by Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 2005: 46, 63; synonymy rejected and Ocyale declared a nomen dubium (in Pisauridae) by Sherwood, 2022c: 583.

Transferred to other genera:

Ocyale conspersa Karsch, 1879 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale dewinterae Alderweireldt, 1996 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale discrepans Roewer, 1960 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale fera Strand, 1908 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale ghost Jocque & Jocqué, 2017 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale grandis Alderweireldt, 1996 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale guttata (Karsch, 1878) -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale huachoi (Mello-Leitão, 1942) -- see Prolycosides

Ocyale ingenua (Karsch, 1879) -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale kalpiensis Gajbe, 2004 -- see Arctosa

Ocyale kumari Dyal, 1935 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale lanca (Karsch, 1879) -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale maculata (L. Koch, 1875) -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale natalica (Roewer, 1960) -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale neatalanta Alderweireldt, 1996 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale oraria (L. Koch, 1876) -- see Tetralycosa

Ocyale pelliona (Audouin, 1826) -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale pilosa (Roewer, 1960) -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale qiongzhongensis Yin & Peng, 1997 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale spissa (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale spissides Strand, 1908 -- see Hippasosa

Nomen dubium:

Ocyale atalanta Audouin, 1826: 150, pl. 4, f. 10 (f, Israel) * -- Alderweireldt, 1996: 1351, confirmed by Sherwood, 2022c: 583

Ocyale atalanta Audouin, 1826 | | Israel urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052722 TYPE SPECIES

Ocyale atalanta Audouin, 1826: 150, pl. 4, f. 10 (Df) Original description

Dolomedes ocyale Walckenaer, 1837: 353 (superfluous new name for Ocyale atalanta)

Ocyale ocyale Simon, 1864: 382

Ocyale atalanta Alderweireldt, 1996: 1351 (nomen dubium)

Ocyale atalanta Heinrichs & Barrion, 2004: 199, f. 528-529 (f; presumably misidentified)

Ocyale atalanta Sherwood, 2022c: 583 (nomen dubium confirmed)