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. Bryantella Chickering, 1946 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02864

type Bryantella speciosa Chickering, 1946; gender feminine

In synonymy:

Bryantella convexa (Chickering, 1946, T from Parnaenus) = Bryantella smaragda (Crane, 1945) (Scioscia, 1988: 189)

Bryantella smaragda (Crane, 1945) | | Panama to Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032588

Parnaeus smaragdus Crane, 1945: 40, f. 5A-G (Dm, lapsus for Parnaenus) Original description

Parnaenus convexus Chickering, 1946: 335, f. 292-297 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062281]

Dendryphantes convexus Roewer, 1955c: 1192

Dendryphantes smaragdus Roewer, 1955c: 1200

Parnaenus convexus Prószyński, 1971e: 446 (T from Dendryphantes)

Bryantella smaragdus Scioscia, 1988: 188, f. 7-8, 10-12, 19-23 (mf, T from Dendryphantes, S of Parnaenus convexus)

Bryantella smaragdus Scioscia, 1995: 37, f. 1-12 (mf)

Bryantella smaragda Prószyński, 2017b: 95, f. 43E (m)

Bryantella speciosa Chickering, 1946 | | Panama to Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032589 TYPE SPECIES

Bryantella speciosa Chickering, 1946: 390, f. 343-347 (Dmf) Original description

Bryantella speciosa Scioscia, 1988: 188, f. 3-6, 9, 13, 17-18, 24-26 (mf)