World Spider Catalog

Oonopidae Simon, 1890

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: For discussions of monophyly, see Burger & Michalik, 2010: 11 and Platnick et al., 2012a: 32, monophyly confirmed by de Busschere et al., 2014. The family contains three subfamilies (Platnick et al., 2012a, de Busschere et al., 2014): Oonopinae Simon, 1890 (= Gamasomorphinae Petrunkevitch, 1923), Orchestininae Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 and Sulsulinae Platnick, 2012. The family Brucharachnidae Mello-Leitão, 1925 (Mello-Leitão, 1925c: 234), with its single genus and species (Brucharachne ecitophilus Mello-Leitão, 1925 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051362]) was provisionally placed within Oonopidae by Brignoli, 1980j: 731, transferred to Acari, Mesostigmata, Dermanyssoidea, family Laelapidae, and the genus Brucharachne Mello-Leitão, 1925 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04556] was synonymized with Sphaeroseius Berlese, 1904 by Krantz & Platnick, 1995: 3.

Gen. Unicorn Platnick & Brescovit, 1995 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00550

Unicorn argentina (Mello-Leitão, 1940) | | Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005214

Orchestina argentina Mello-Leitão, 1940e: 257 (Dj) Original description

Unicorn argentina Platnick & Brescovit, 1995: 11, f. 26-28 (Tj from Orchestina, Dm)

Unicorn argentina Izquierdo & Rubio, 2011: 4, f. 3B (m)

Unicorn catleyi Platnick & Brescovit, 1995 | | Chile, Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005215

Unicorn catleyi Platnick & Brescovit, 1995: 9, f. 1, 3-11, 15-18 (Dmf) Original description

Unicorn catleyi Izquierdo & Rubio, 2011: 2, f. 1A-E, 2A-F, 3A (mf)

Unicorn chacabuco Platnick & Brescovit, 1995 | | Chile urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005216

Unicorn chacabuco Platnick & Brescovit, 1995: 10, f. 21 (Df) Original description

Unicorn huanaco Platnick & Brescovit, 1995 | | Bolivia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005217

Unicorn huanaco Platnick & Brescovit, 1995: 11, f. 2, 29-31 (Dm) Original description

Unicorn sikus González, Corronca & Cava, 2010 | | Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043311

Unicorn sikus González, Corronca & Cava, 2010: 375, f. 1a-d, 2a-3, 3a-e, 4a-h (Dmf) Original description

Unicorn socos Platnick & Brescovit, 1995 | | Chile urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005218

Unicorn socos Platnick & Brescovit, 1995: 10, f. 20 (Df) Original description

Unicorn toconao Platnick & Brescovit, 1995 | | Chile urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005219

Unicorn toconao Platnick & Brescovit, 1995: 10, f. 19, 23-25 (Dmf) Original description