World Spider Catalog

Psechridae Simon, 1890

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: Family delimited and positioned in the vicinity of Amaurobioidea by Lehtinen, 1967: 382, considered to be paraphyletic and close to Thomisidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 601, shown to be monophyletic and sister family to Ctenidae by Cheng & Piel, 2018: 216.

In synonymy:

Mezentia Thorell, 1881 = Fecenia Simon, 1887 (Simon, 1887d: 194, preoccupied, replacement name)

Homonym replaced:

Mezentia Thorell, 1881 -- see Fecenia Simon, 1887 - in Simon, 1887d

Gen. Fecenia Simon, 1887 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01769

N.B.: replacement name for Mezentia Thorell, 1881: 203 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05972], preoccupied in Orthoptera by Stål, 1878.

In synonymy:

Fecenia angustata (Thorell, 1881) = Fecenia ochracea Doleschall, 1859 (Lehtinen, 1967: 234)

Fecenia buruana Reimoser, 1936 = Fecenia ochracea Doleschall, 1859 (Lehtinen, 1967: 234)

Fecenia cinerea Hogg, 1914 = Fecenia ochracea Doleschall, 1859 (Lehtinen, 1967: 234)

Fecenia hainanensis Wang, 1990 = Fecenia cylindrata Thorell, 1895 (Wang & Yin, 2001: 332)

Fecenia maforensis Simon, 1906 = Fecenia ochracea Doleschall, 1859 (Lehtinen, 1967: 234)

Fecenia montana Kulczyński, 1910 = Fecenia ochracea Doleschall, 1859 (Lehtinen, 1967: 234)

Fecenia nicobarensis (Tikader, 1977) = Fecenia protensa Thorell, 1891 (Bayer, 2011: 31)

Fecenia oblonga Rainbow, 1913 = Fecenia ochracea Doleschall, 1859 (Lehtinen, 1967: 234)

Fecenia sumatrana Kulczyński, 1908 = Fecenia protensa Thorell, 1891 (Bayer, 2011: 30)

Fecenia travancoria Pocock, 1899 = Fecenia protensa Thorell, 1891 (Malamel, Pradeep & Sebastian, 2013: 360)

Fecenia cylindrata Thorell, 1895 | | China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020355

Fecenia cylindrata Thorell, 1895b: 64 (Dm) Original description

Fecenia cylindrata Thorell, 1897a: 263 (Df)

Fecenia cylindrata Pocock, 1900a: 212 (Df)

Fecenia cylindrata Lehtinen, 1967: 462, f. 472-473 (m)

Fecenia cylindrata Levi, 1982: 136, f. 80-82 (m, Df)

Fecenia hainanensis Wang, 1990b: 257, f. 1-3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020356]

Fecenia cylindrata Yang & Wang, 1993: 29, f. 1-4 (mf)

Fecenia cylindrata Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 397, f. 231O-Q (mf)

Fecenia cylindrata Wang & Yin, 2001: 332, f. 1-4 (mf, S of Fecenia hainanensis)

Fecenia cylindrata Bayer, 2011: 39, f. 79-94, 97, 100, 105-107, 116-117, 121-122 (mf)

Fecenia macilenta (Simon, 1886) | | Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020357

Mezentia macilenta Simon, 1886c: 451, pl. 10, f. 17 (Dm) Original description

Fecenia macilenta Simon, 1892a: 225, f. 171-172

Fecenia macilenta Levi, 1982: 136, f. 84-85 (m; S of Fecenia travancoria, rejected by Murphy, 1986: 65; f see Fecenia protensa)

Fecenia macilenta Murphy, 1986: 65, f. 1-2 (Df)

Fecenia macilenta Coddington, 1990: 10, f. 18 (m)

Fecenia macilenta Bayer, 2011: 27, f. 48-54, 95, 101, 114-115 (mf)

Mezentia macilenta Frétey, 2023: 125 (year of description corrected)

Fecenia ochracea (Doleschall, 1859) | | Philippines to Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020359

Tegenaria ochracea Doleschall, 1859: 50, pl. 8, f. 8 (Df) Original description

Mezentia angustata Thorell, 1881: 204 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061225]

Fecenia angustata Simon, 1892a: 226

Fecenia maforensis Simon, 1906b: 287, f. 1A (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061228]

Fecenia ochracea Simon, 1906b: 287, f. 1B (f)

Fecenia montana Kulczyński, 1910: 389, pl. 17, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061229]

Fecenia oblonga Rainbow, 1913: 7, f. 5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061230]

Fecenia cinerea Hogg, 1914a: 56 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061227]

Fecenia cinerea Hogg, 1915a: 437, f. 23 (f)

Fecenia buruana Reimoser, 1936: 406, f. 1 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061226]

Fecenia ochracea Lehtinen, 1967: 234 (S of Fecenia angustata, F. buruana, F. cinerea, F. maforensis, F. montana and F. oblonga)

Fecenia angustata Chrysanthus, 1967b: 102, f. 55-57, 60-64 (f, Dm)

Fecenia maforensis Chrysanthus, 1967b: 104, f. 65 (f)

Fecenia buruana Chrysanthus, 1967b: 104, f. 66-67 (mf)

Fecenia ochracea Levi, 1982: 133, f. 68-79, 90 (mf)

Fecenia ochracea Bayer, 2011: 12, f. 1-47, 96, 102-104, 118 (mf)

Fecenia ochracea Tan, Koh & Ang, 2018: 16, f. 2b, 4a-b, 5, 8a-b, 9a-b (mf)

Fecenia protensa Thorell, 1891 | | India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo, Bali) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044427

Fecenia protensa Thorell, 1891: 31 (Dj) Original description

Fecenia travancoria Pocock, 1899d: 750 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020360]

Fecenia travancoria Pocock, 1900a: 212 (f)

Fecenia sumatrana Kulczyński, 1908d: 568, pl. 23, f. 20 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061231]

Psechrus nicobarensis Tikader, 1977a: 208, f. 27A-E (Dmf). [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020358]

Fecenia macilenta Levi, 1982: 136, f. 83, 86-87 (f; misidentified per Bayer, 2011: 31)

Fecenia nicobarensis Levi, 1982: 138 (T from Psechrus)

Fecenia travancoria Murphy, 1986: 65 (removed from S of Fecenia macilenta, contra Lehtinen, 1967: 234 and Levi, 1982: 136; S of F. sumatrana, rejected by Bayer, 2011: 30)

Psechrus alticeps Sunil Jose & Sebastian, 2001a: 304, f. 1a-g (mf; misidentified per Bayer, 2011: 31)

Fecenia protensa Bayer, 2011: 29, f. 55-70, 98-99, 108-110, 119 (mf, removed from S of Fecenia macilenta, contra Levi, 1982: 136, S of F. nicobarensis and F. sumatrana; F. sumatrana removed from S of F. macilenta, contra Lehtinen, 1967: 234, Levi, 1982: 136, and from F. travancoria contra Murphy, 1986: 65)

Fecenia travancoria Bayer, 2011: 36, f. 71-78, 111-113 (f)

Fecenia protensa Malamel, Pradeep & Sebastian, 2013: 360, f. 1, 2a-c, 3a-c, 4a-b, 5a-b, 6-10, 11a-b, 12a-b, 13a-b, 14a-b, 15 (mf, S of Fecenia travancoria)

Fecenia protensa Bayer, 2014b: 41, f. 1A, 24A-D (f)

Fecenia protensa Tan, Koh & Ang, 2018: 16, f. 1a, 2a, 6a-b, 7, 8c-d, 9c-d (mf)