World Spider Catalog

Pisauridae Simon, 1890

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: the Dolomedidae (incl. Bradystichidae) are removed from the synonymy by Morris, Hazzi & Hormiga, 2025: 8, confirmed by Yu et al., 2025: 431 (confirming Lehtinen, 1967: 231, rejecting Sierwald, 1990: 50); Sierwald, 1990: 50 recognized also 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 Halidae Jocqué, 1994b: 281 by Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006: 212 (confirmed by Polotow, Carmichael & Griswold, 2015); probably includes Senoculidae per Murphy & Roberts, 2015: ix; Morris, Hazzi & Hormiga, 2025: 8 list three subfamilies (Halinae Jocqué, 1994: Hala, Tolma; Thaumasiinae Petrunkevitch, 1928: Architis, Thaumasia; Pisaurinae: Cladycnis, Dendrolycosa, Nilus, Paracladycnis, Perenethis, Pisaura, Pisaurina, Sphedanus) and numerous genera are deemed incertae sedis in terms of their subfamilial placement; Blandinia Tonini, Silva, Filho & Freitas, 2016 is excluded from the Pisauridae by Yu et al., 2025: 431 ("incertae sedis"), but not included into another family.

Gen. Euprosthenopsis Blandin, 1974 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01710

type Euprosthenops armatus Strand, 1913; gender feminine

Euprosthenopsis armata (Strand, 1913) | | DR Congo, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Eswatini urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019686 TYPE SPECIES

Euprosthenops armatus Strand, 1913a: 417 (Dmf) Original description

Euprosthenops armatus Roewer, 1955b: 137, f. 56a-d (mf)

Euprosthenopsis armatus Blandin, 1974b: 945 (Tmf from Euprosthenops)

Euprosthenopsis armatus Blandin, 1977b: 138, f. 2, 4, 7-8, 11 (mf)

Euprosthenopsis armata Silva & Sierwald, 2014: 146, f. 29-30 (m)

Euprosthenopsis armata Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020q: 28, 5 f. (f)

Euprosthenopsis lamorali Blandin, 1977 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019687

Euprosthenopsis lamorali Blandin, 1977b: 145, f. 16, 18 (Df) Original description

Euprosthenopsis lamorali Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020q: 29, 5 f. (f)

Euprosthenopsis lesserti (Roewer, 1955) | | East Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019688

Euprosthenops armatus Lessert, 1916: 569, f. 5-6 (m, misidentified)

Euprosthenops lessertii Roewer, 1955b: 133 (Dm) Original description

Euprosthenopsis lesserti Blandin, 1977b: 139, f. 1, 6 (Tm from Eusprosthenops)

Euprosthenopsis lesserti garambensis (Lessert, 1928) | | Central Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019689

Euprosthenops armatus garambensis Lessert, 1928: 334, f. 20 (Dm) Original description

Euprosthenops lessertii garambensis Roewer, 1955b: 134 (T from subspecies of E. armatus)

Euprosthenopsis lesserti garambensis Blandin, 1977b: 140 (Tm from Euprosthenops; N.B.: this "subspecies" name has priority over E. lesserti)

Euprosthenopsis pulchella (Pocock, 1902) | | South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019690

Euprosthenops pulchellus Pocock, 1902a: 18, pl. 3, f. 6 (Df) Original description

Euprosthenopsis pulchellus Blandin, 1977b: 143, f. 9, 15, 19, 20b (Tf from Euprosthenops)

Euprosthenopsis pulchella Silva & Sierwald, 2014: 145, f. 23-28, 31-34 (Dm)

Euprosthenopsis pulchella Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020q: 30, 7 f. (mf)

Euprosthenopsis rothschildi Blandin, 1977 | | Kenya urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019691

Euprosthenopsis rothschildi Blandin, 1977b: 143, f. 14 (Df) Original description

Euprosthenopsis vachoni Blandin, 1977 | | Djibouti urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019692

Euprosthenopsis vachoni Blandin, 1977b: 143, f. 13 (Df) Original description

Euprosthenopsis vuattouxi Blandin, 1977 | | Ivory Coast, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019693

Euprosthenopsis vuattouxi Blandin, 1977b: 140, f. 3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 20a (Dmf) Original description

Euprosthenopsis vuattouxi Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020q: 31, 8 f (m, f habitus)