World Spider Catalog

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: Nicodamidae considered a senior synonym of Megadictynidae Lehtinen, 1967: 247 by Forster, 1970b: 177. Megadictynidae re-established by Dimitrov et al., 2017: 239, family status already assumend by Murphy & Roberts, 2015: ix. Nicodamidae assigned to Nicodamoidea by Dimitrov et al., 2017: 239 (contra Harvey, 1995: 285, who assigned it to Amaurobioidea).

Gen. Novodamus Harvey, 1995 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02085

type Centropelma nodata Karsch, 1878; gender masculine

In synonymy:

Novodamus melanozanthus (Urquhart, 1893, T from Linyphia) = Novodamus nodatus (Karsch, 1878) (Harvey, 1995: 361)

Novodamus nodatus (Karsch, 1878) | | Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023242 TYPE SPECIES

Centropelma nodata Karsch, 1878c: 815 (Dm) Original description

Linyphia melanozantha Urquhart, 1893b: 103 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064109]

Nicodamus nodatus Roewer, 1942a: 429

Novodamus nodatus Harvey, 1995: 361, f. 164-170 (mf, T from Nicodamus, S of Linyphia melanozantha)

Novodamus supernus Harvey, 1995 | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023243

Novodamus supernus Harvey, 1995: 365, f. 171-177 (Dmf) Original description