Pisauridae Simon, 1890

Family |   ACCEPTED
N.B.: placement of some nursery-web spiders in a separate family Dolomedidae Simon, 1898a: 281, 301 (Lehtinen, 1967) [but Dolomedinae was first used by Simon, 1876a: 226, which makes it older than Pisauridae, overlooked by Bonnet, 1956: 1543] was rejected by Sierwald, 1990: 50, who also recognized a "Trechalea genus group [that] is not a close relative of the nursery-web Pisauridae" and whose members are now listed under Trechaleidae; considered a synonym of Bradystichidae Simon, 1884e: 298 (removed from the synonymy of Lycosidae by Lehtinen, 1967: 293) by Platnick & Forster, 1993: 3 and of Halidae JocquƩ, 1994b: 281 by JocquƩ & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006: 212; probably includes Senoculidae (Murphy & Roberts, 2015: ix); mentioning of "Dolomediens" by Simon, 1864: 342, but the French ending -iens was not accepted as taxon at familiar level by Bonnet and Platnick, and this is continued here; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 518, f. 17-18.
Gen. Afropisaura Blandin, 1976 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01693

In synonymy:

Afropisaura camerunensis (Roewer, 1955, T from Pisaura) = Afropisaura ducis Strand, 1913 (Blandin, 1976c: 936)

Afropisaura faradjensis (Lessert, 1928, T from Pisaura) = Afropisaura rothiformis Strand, 1908 (Blandin, 1976c: 932)

Afropisaura rothiformis orientalis (Strand, 1913) = Afropisaura rothiformis Strand, 1908 (Roewer, 1955b: 220, sub Pisaura)

Afropisaura ducis (Strand, 1913) | | West, Central, East Africa, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019500
Pisaura ducis Strand, 1913a: 419 (Dm) Original description
Pisaura ducis Roewer, 1955b: 223, f. 85a-d (m, Df)
Pisaura camerunensis Roewer, 1955b: 229, f. 87a-b (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061015]
Afropisaura ducis Blandin, 1976c: 934, f. 4, 23-24, 26, 28-29 (mf, T from Pisaura, S of Pisaura camerunensis)
Afropisaura ducis Sierwald, 1997: 381, f. 20-22 (f)
Afropisaura ducis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020q: 7, 8 f. (mf)
Afropisaura rothiformis (Strand, 1908) | | Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Somalia, DR Congo, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, Angola, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019501
Pisaura rothiformis Strand, 1908e: 278 (Dm) Original description
Pisaura rothiformis orientalis Strand, 1913a: 420 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061017]
Rothus faradjensis Lessert, 1928: 336, f. 21-22 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061016]
Pisaura rothiformis Roewer, 1955b: 220, f. 84a-e (mf, S of Pisaura rothiformis orientalis)
Pisaura faradjensis Roewer, 1955b: 225, f. 86a-e (mf)
Afropisaura rothiformis Blandin, 1976c: 930, f. 20, 22, 25, 27 (mf, T from Pisaura, S of Pisaura faradjensis)
Afropisaura rothiformis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020q: 8, 7 f. (mf)
Afropisaura valida (Simon, 1886) | | West, Central Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019502
Pisaura valida Simon, 1886g: 354 (Df) Original description
Afropisaura valida Blandin, 1976c: 927, f. 16-17, 19, 21, 30-34 (Dm, f, T from Pisaura)
Afropisaura valida Sierwald, 1997: 381, f. 17-19, 25-26 (mf)

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