World Spider Catalog

Microstigmatidae Roewer, 1942

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. Xamiatus Raven, 1981 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00140

N.B.: transferred from the Dipluridae to the Nemesiidae by Raven, 1985a: 90 and to the Microstigmatidae by Opatova et al., 2020: 701, based on the morphological similarity with Ixamatus and Kiama (see Raven, 1985a).

Xamiatus bulburin Raven, 1981 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001337

Xamiatus bulburin Raven, 1981c: 349, f. 21, 25, 31, 37, 39 (Dm) Original description

Xamiatus ilara Raven, 1982 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001338

Xamiatus ilara Raven, 1982a: 475, f. 5-12 (Dmf) Original description

Xamiatus kia Raven, 1981 | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001339

Xamiatus kia Raven, 1981c: 358, f. 20, 26, 32, 36, 40 (Dm) Original description

Xamiatus kia Raven, 1982a: 463, f. 2-4 (Df)

Xamiatus magnificus Raven, 1981 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001340

Xamiatus magnificus Raven, 1981c: 352, f. 19, 23, 28, 33-35, 42, 52 (Dmf) Original description

Xamiatus rubrifrons Raven, 1981 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001341

Xamiatus rubrifrons Raven, 1981c: 344, f. 17-18, 24, 29, 38, 41, 43, 51, 57, 62, 66-68 (Dmf) Original description