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.

Gen. Phricotelus Simon, 1895 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00806

type Phricotelus stelliger Simon, 1895; gender masculine

N.B.: transferred from the Theridiosomatidae to the Symphytognathidae by Levi, 1972b: 534; placed here provisionally by Brignoli, 1980j: 731; considered incertae sedis by Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 631.

Transferred to other genera:

Phricotelus yangxiong Lin & Li, 2024 -- see Trogloneta

Phricotelus langwanduo Q. Zhang, S. Li & Lin, 2023 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058582

Phricotelus langwanduo Q. Zhang, S. Li & Lin in Zhang et al., 2023d: 738, S74, f. S46A-G (Df) Original description

Phricotelus stelliger Simon, 1895 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009272 TYPE SPECIES

Phricotelus stelliger Simon, 1895a: 919, f. 985 (Df) Original description

Phricotelus stelliger Brignoli, 1981a: 14, f. 4 (f)

Phricotelus stelliger Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 631, f. 135C, 144B (f)