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.

In synonymy:

Flacilla Simon, 1901 = Flacillula Strand, 1932 (Strand, 1932: 137, preoccupied, replacement name)

Gen. Flacillula Strand, 1932 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02953

type Flacilla lubrica Simon, 1901; gender feminine

N.B.: replacement name for Flacilla Simon, 1901c : 153 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05973], preoccupied in fossil Gastropoda by Koken, 1896.

Transferred to other genera:

Flacillula kraussi (Marples, 1964) -- see Pseudicius

Flacillula minuta (Berland, 1929) -- see Iona

Flacillula nitens Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997 -- see Iona

Nomen dubium:

Flacillula purpurea (Dyal, 1935: 238, j, Pakistan, originally in Flacilla) -- Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021: 1262

Flacillula albofrenata (Simon, 1905) | | Indonesia (Java) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033444

Flacilla albofrenata Simon, 1905c: 71 (Df) Original description

Flacillula albofrenata Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021: 1262 (most probably misplaced)

Flacillula dothalugala Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053362

Flacillula dothalugala Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021: 1262, f. 3-4, 20-21, 39-40, 61-62 (Dmf) Original description

Flacillula ellaensis Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053363

Flacillula ellaensis Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021: 1263, f. 5, 18, 41-42 (Df) Original description

Flacillula henryi Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053364

Flacillula henryi Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021: 1264, f. 6-7, 16, 22-24, 43-44, 59-60 (Dmf) Original description

Flacillula hodgsoni Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053365

Flacillula hodgsoni Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021: 1267, f. 15, 19, 25-27, 45-46 (Dmf) Original description

Flacillula incognita Żabka, 1985 | | Vietnam urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033445

Flacillula incognita Żabka, 1985: 225, f. 197-198 (Df) Original description

Flacillula incognita Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021: 1262 (most probably misplaced)

Flacillula johnstoni Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053366

Flacillula johnstoni Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021: 1268, f. 9, 11-12, 17, 28-29, 47-48, 53-56 (Dmf) Original description

Flacillula lubrica (Simon, 1901) | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033446 TYPE SPECIES

Flacilla lubrica Simon, 1901a: 558, f. 570-574 (m)

Flacilla lubrica Simon, 1901c: 153 (Dm) Original description

Flacillula lubrica Strand, 1932: 137 (generic replacement name)

Flacillula lubrica Prószyński, 1984a: 77 (m)

Flacillula lubrica Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021: 1268, f. 13, 30-32, 49-50 (m)

Flacillula naipauli Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053367

Flacillula naipauli Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021: 1269, f. 14, 33-34, 57-58 (Dm) Original description

Flacillula piyasenai Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053368

Flacillula piyasenai Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021: 1269, f. 8, 10, 35-38, 51-52 (Dm) Original description