World Spider Catalog

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Lyssomanidae Blackwall, 1877 by Galiano, 1976b: 67; for illustrations of scale morphology of about 60 species, see Hill, 1979; for the phylogeny within the family see Maddison & Hedin, 2003b, Maddison, 2015, Maddison et al., 2017, Prószyński, 2017b and Zhang et al., 2024f; the subfamilies Asemoneinae Maddison, 2015, Eupoinae Maddison, 2015, Hisponinae Simon 1901, Lyssomaninae, Onomastinae Maddison, 2015, Salticinae and Spartaeinae Wanless, 1984 are confirmed by Zhang et al., 2024f: 347.

Gen. Arasia Simon, 1901 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02822

type Astia mollicoma L. Koch, 1880; gender feminine

Transferred to other genera:

Arasia aurea (L. Koch, 1880) -- see Sondra

Arasia eucalypti Gardzińska, 1996 | | New Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032317

Arasia eucalypti Gardzińska, 1996: 297, f. 1A-E, 2A-D (Dmf) Original description

Arasia mollicoma (L. Koch, 1880) | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032318 TYPE SPECIES

Astia mollicoma L. Koch, 1880: 1158, pl. 100, f. 6-7 (Dmf) Original description

Arasia mollicoma Simon, 1901a: 438, f. 483 (f)

Arasia mollicoma Wanless, 1988: 116, f. 16A-M (mf)

Arasia mollicoma Davies & Żabka, 1989: 206, pl. 16 (mf)

Arasia mollicoma Gardzińska, 1996: 297, f. 1F-H, 2E (mf)

Arasia mollicoma Prószyński, 2017b: 119, f. 52A, 53A (mf)

Arasia mullion Żabka, 2002 | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039056

Arasia mullion Żabka, 2002: 258, f. 1A-D (Dm) Original description