World Spider Catalog

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: elevated to family status by Raven & Platnick, 1981: 14 and is composed of the subfamilies Microstigmatinae and Micromygalinae Platnick & Forster, 1982 (Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019: 2); newly circumscribed by Opatova et al., 2020: 702 and by Montes de Oca et al., 2022: 15.

Gen. Spelocteniza Gertsch, 1982 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00146

type Spelocteniza ashmolei Gertsch, 1982; gender feminine

N.B.: transferred from the the Ctenizidae to the the Nemesiidae by Raven, 1985a: 110 and to the Microstigmatidae by Goloboff, 1995: 5.

Spelocteniza ashmolei Gertsch, 1982 | | Ecuador urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001353 TYPE SPECIES

Spelocteniza ashmolei Gertsch, 1982a: 85, f. 8-9 (Df) Original description

Spelocteniza ashmolei Dupérré & Tapia, 2025d: 95, f. 4A-B, 5A-C, 24A-D, 25A-D (f)

Spelocteniza pampenita Dupérré & Tapia, 2025 | | Ecuador urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065752

Spelocteniza pampenita Dupérré & Tapia, 2025d: 95, f. 6A-B, 7A-D, 8A-E, 9A-B, 10A-C, 26A-F, 27A-F, 28A-F, 29A (Dmf) Original description

Spelocteniza zuninoi Dupérré & Tapia, 2025 | | Ecuador urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065753

Spelocteniza zuninoi Dupérré & Tapia, 2025d: 104, f. 11A-C, 12A-E (Dm) Original description