World Spider Catalog

Macrobunidae Bonnet, 1957

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: elevated from subfamily of Amaurobiidae by Gorneau et al., 2023: 10, but with the authorpship of Petrunkevitch, 1928: 44, 114, who used Myropsininae (Myropsis is preoccupied); Bonnet, 1957: 2689 corrected to Macrobuninae (see Lin et al., 2024: 19); included genera listed by Wheeler et al., 2017: 605 (sub Macrobuninae, see also Gorneau et al., 2023: 10 and Lin et al., 2024: 19).

In synonymy:

Charitonowia Strand, 1934 = Macrobunus Tullgren, 1901 (Roewer, 1955c: 1370)

Myropsis Simon, 1898 = Macrobunus Tullgren, 1901 (Simon, 1902h: 9, sub Myropsis)

Olybrius Roth, 1967 = Macrobunus Tullgren, 1901 (Lehtinen, 1967: 254)

Gen. Macrobunus Tullgren, 1901 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02025

N.B.: considered a synonym of Myropsis Simon, 1898a: 238 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04684] (type Myro backhauseni Simon, 1896) by Simon, 1902h: 9; Myropsis is preoccupied in Crustacea by Stimpson, 1871; Charitonowia Strand, 1934: 272 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04685] is a superfluous replacement name for Myropsis; considered a senior synonym of Olybrius Roth, 1967c: 323 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04918] (type Cicurina madrynensis Tullgren, 1901) and transferred from the Agelenidae to the Amaurobiidae by Lehtinen, 1967: 254 and to the Macrobunidae by Gorneau et al., 2023: 10; not a senior synonym of Opsaltella Mello-Leitão, 1941d: 114 (Ramírez, 1996a: 2, contra Lehtinen, 1967: 254), see Callevopsis.

Transferred to other genera:

Macrobunus diffusus (Mello-Leitão, 1941) -- see Callevopsis

Macrobunus pauperculus (Simon, 1905) -- see Neuquenia

Macrobunus tigrinus (Mello-Leitão, 1941) -- see Anisacate

Macrobunus backhauseni (Simon, 1896) | | Chile, Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022960

Myro backhauseni Simon, 1896c: 142 (Dmf) Original description

Myropsis backhauseni Simon, 1898a: 238

Macrobunus spinifer Tullgren, 1901b: 249, pl. 5, f. 5 (Dm)

Myropsis backhauseni Simon, 1902h: 9 (S of Macrobunus spinifer)

Charitonowia [backhauseni] Strand, 1934: 272 (superfluous generic replacement name)

Macrobunus backhauseni Lehtinen, 1967: 443, f. 178 (f)

Macrobunus caffer (Simon, 1898) | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022961

Myro caffer Simon, 1898a: 246, f. 229-230 (Df) Original description

Macrobunus caffer Lehtinen, 1967: 246, f. 170 (Tf from Myro)

Myro caffer Ledoux, 1991: 145, f. 12A-B (f)

Macrobunus caffer Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021b: 19, 3 f. (f)

Macrobunus chilensis (Simon, 1889) | | Chile urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022962

Myro chilensis Simon, 1889a: 218 (Dm) Original description

Myropsis chilensis Simon, 1898a: 238

Macrobunus chilensis Lehtinen, 1967: 443, f. 174 (m)

Macrobunus madrynensis (Tullgren, 1901) | | Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022963

Cicurina madrynensis Tullgren, 1901b: 251, pl. 18, f. 10 (Df) Original description

Macrobunus madrynensis Lehtinen, 1967: 246

Olybrius madrynensis Roth, 1967c: 323, pl. 52, f. 4-5 (Tf from Cicurina)

Macrobunus multidentatus (Tullgren, 1902) | | Chile urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022964

Myro multidentata Tullgren, 1902: 72, pl. 6, f. 5 (Dmf) Original description

Macrobunus multidentatus Lehtinen, 1967: 246 (Tmf from Myro)

Macrobunus multidentatus Griswold et al., 2005: 9, f. 183A-B, 193B-C (m)