World Spider Catalog

Mysmenidae Petrunkevitch, 1928

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Symphytognathidae by Forster & Platnick, 1977: 2; genera reviewed by Brignoli, 1980j: 728; considered a junior synonym of Anapidae by Wunderlich, 1986: 114 and revalidated by Wunderlich, 2011: 446; two subfamilies are known: Mysmeninae and Mysmenopsinae Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 779.

In synonymy:

Kilifia Baert & Murphy, 1987 = Isela Griswold, 1985 (Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 780, automatically with its replacement name Kilifina)

Kilifina Baert & Murphy, 1992 = Isela Griswold, 1985 (Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 780)

Gen. Isela Griswold, 1985 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00795

type Isela okuncana Griswold, 1985; gender feminine

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Kilifina Baert & Murphy, 1992: 104 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00798], itself a replacement name for Kilifia Baert & Murphy, 1987: 194 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04987] (type K. inquilina Baert & Murphy, 1987), preoccupied in Hemiptera by Lotto, 1965, by Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 780.

Isela inquilina (Baert & Murphy, 1987) | | Kenya urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009212

Kilifia inquilina Baert & Murphy, 1987: 194, f. 1-7 (Dmf) Original description

Isela okuncana Griswold, 1985 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009206 TYPE SPECIES

Isela okuncana Griswold, 1985b: 210, f. 1-30 (Dmf) Original description

Isela okuncana Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 780, f. 1A-E, 2A-H, 3A-F, 128A, 131H, 140A-C (mf)

Isela okuncana Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021p: 5, p. 3: 4 f., p. 4: 4 f., p. 5: 8 f. (mf, also misspelled as okuneana)