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. Goleba Wanless, 1980 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02968

type Asemonea puella Simon, 1885; gender feminine

Goleba jocquei Szűts, 2001 | | Rep. Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039074

Goleba jocquei Szűts, 2001: 111, f. 1-7 (Df) Original description

Goleba lyra Maddison & Zhang, 2006 | | Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040820

Goleba lyra Maddison & Zhang, 2006: 30, f. 1-7 (Dmf) Original description

Goleba lyra Prószyński, 2017b: 125, f. 54J (mf)

Goleba pallens (Blackwall, 1877) | | Seychelles urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033532

Lyssomanes pallens Blackwall, 1877: 6, pl. 1, f. 5 (Df) Original description

Asamonea pallens Simon, 1885h: 27 (T from Lyssomanes; lapsus)

Goleba pallens Wanless, 1980d: 249, f. 24A-H (Dm, f, T from Asemonea)

Asemonea pallens Wanless, 1984c: 9, f. 1a-d (f)

Goleba pallens Saaristo, 2010: 181, f. 27.37-42 (mf)

Goleba puella (Simon, 1885) | | Ghana, DR Congo, Kenya, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033533 TYPE SPECIES

Asamonea puella Simon, 1885h: 27 (Dmf, lapsus) Original description

Asamonea puella Roewer, 1965: 4, f. 5a-c (mf, lapsus)

Asemonea puella Clark, 1974: 12, f. 2-3 (f)

Goleba puella Wanless, 1980d: 246, f. 22A-E, 23A-C, 29 (mf, T from Asemonea)

Goleba puella Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 38, f. 53-61 (mf)

Goleba puella Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b: 46, f. 1-7 (mf)

Goleba punctata (G. W. Peckham, E. G. Peckham & Wheeler, 1889) | | Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033534

Asamonea punctata Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889: 244, pl. 12, f. 21 (Df, lapsus) Original description

Goleba punctata Wanless, 1980d: 251, f. 25A-F (f, T from Asemonea)