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. Colaxes Simon, 1900 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02897

type Colaxes nitidiventris Simon, 1900; gender masculine

Transferred to other genera:

Colaxes benjamini Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 -- see Wandawe

Colaxes insularis (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885) -- see Ballagascar

Colaxes cibagou Wang, Mi & Li, 2024 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060022

Colaxes cibagou Wang, Mi & Li, 2024: 146, f. 3A-D, 4A-H (Dmf) Original description

Colaxes horton Benjamin, 2004 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040790

Colaxes horton Benjamin, 2004b: 24, f. 16A-D (Df) Original description

Colaxes horton Azarkina & Haddad, 2020: 38, f. 166-174 (f)

Colaxes nitidiventris Simon, 1900 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032836 TYPE SPECIES

Colaxes nitidiventris Simon, 1900b: 402 (Dm) Original description

Colaxes nitidiventris Prószyński, 1987: 16 (m)

Colaxes nitidiventris Benjamin, 2004b: 21, f. 11A-C (m)

Colaxes sazailus Paul, Prajapati, Joseph & Sebastian, 2020 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051983

Colaxes sazailus Paul et al., 2020: 245, f. 1-4, 6-37 (Dmf) Original description

Colaxes wanlessi Benjamin, 2004 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040791

Colaxes wanlessi Benjamin, 2004b: 21, f. 12A-C, 13A-E, 14A-C, 15A-H (Dmf) Original description

Colaxes wanlessi Azarkina & Haddad, 2020: 40, f. 175-193 (mf)