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. Epidelaxia Simon, 1902 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02940

type Epidelaxia albostellata Simon, 1902; gender feminine

Transferred to other genera:

Epidelaxia maurerae Freudenschuss & Seiter, 2016 -- see Bavia

Epidelaxia albocruciata Simon, 1902 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033201

Epidelaxia albocruciata Simon, 1902d: 367 (Dmf) Original description

Epidelaxia albocruciata Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024: S6, f. 8a-d, 9a-g, 10a-d (mf)

Epidelaxia albostellata Simon, 1902 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033202 TYPE SPECIES

Epidelaxia albostellata Simon, 1902d: 367 (Dmf) Original description

Epidelaxia albostellata Simon, 1903a: 797, f. 917 (m)

Epidelaxia albostellata Prószyński, 1987: 22 (mf)

Epidelaxia albostellata Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024: S3, f. 4a-d, 5a-d, 6a-g, 7a-h (mf)

Epidelaxia bharathi Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061701

Epidelaxia bharathi Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024: 702, S10, f. 13a-g, 14a-d (Dmf) Original description

Epidelaxia falciformis Asima, Caleb, Prasad & Joseph, 2025 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064121

Epidelaxia falciformis Asima et al., 2025: 596, f. 1-7 (Dm) Original description

Epidelaxia obscura Simon, 1902 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033203

Epidelaxia obscura Simon, 1902d: 368 (Dm) Original description

Epidelaxia obscura Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024: S8, f. 11a-g, 12a-d (m, Df)

Epidelaxia palustris Asima, Caleb, Prasad & Joseph, 2025 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064122

Epidelaxia palustris Asima et al., 2025: 596, f. 8-21 (Dmf) Original description

Epidelaxia somasundaram Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061702

Epidelaxia somasundaram Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024: 702, S11, f. 15a-g, 16a-g (Dmf) Original description