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. Cembalea Wesołowska, 1993 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02875

type Tularosa plumosa Lessert, 1925; gender feminine

Cembalea affinis Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002 | | Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038223

Cembalea affinis Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002: 286, f. 3A-F (Dm) Original description

Cembalea heteropogon (Simon, 1910) | | Namibia, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032638

Neaetha heteropogon Simon, 1910b: 217 (Dm; f see Cembalea plumosa) Original description

Naetha heteropogon Próchniewicz, 1989: 217, f. 28-32 (m)

Cembalea heteropogon Logunov, 1996d: 529, f. 29-33 (m, T from Neaetha)

Cembalea heteropogon Wesołowska, 2006b: 228, f. 17-22 (m)

Cembalea heteropogon Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 41, f. 1-8 (mf)

Cembalea hirsuta Wesołowska, 2011 | | Namibia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044501

Cembalea hirsuta Wesołowska, 2011b: 308, f. 1-4, 85 (Dm) Original description

Cembalea plumosa (Lessert, 1925) | | Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032639 TYPE SPECIES

Neaetha heteropogon Simon, 1910b: 217 (f; misidentified per Logunov, 1996d: 530,)

Tularosa plumosa Lessert, 1925a: 519, f. 105-109 (Dmf) Original description

Tularosa plumosa Prószyński, 1984a: 141 (mf)

Cembalea plumosa Wesołowska, 1993b: 37, f. 11-20 (mf, T from Tularosa)

Cembalea plumosa Logunov, 1996d: 530, f. 34-39 (f)

Cembalea plumosa Prószyński, 2017b: 33, f. 14E (m)

Cembalea plumosa Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 42, f. 1-6 (mf)

Cembalea triloris Haddad & Wesołowska, 2011 | | Namibia, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044043

Cembalea triloris Haddad & Wesołowska, 2011: 55, f. 3, 14-17 (Dm) Original description

Cembalea triloris Wesołowska, 2011b: 310, f. 5-7 (Df)

Cembalea triloris Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 43, f. 1-5 (mf)