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:

Erasmia Keyserling, 1882 = Iona G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1886 (Peckham & Peckham, 1886: 282, proccupied, replacement name)

Gen. Iona G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1886 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03004

type Erasmia nigrovittata Keyserling, 1882; gender feminine

N.B.: replacement name for Erasmia Keyserling, 1882: 1350 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06300], preoccupied in Lepidoptera by Hope, 1841.

Iona minuta (Berland, 1929) | | Caroline Is., Niue, Samoa, Cook Is., French Polynesia (Society Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033447

Flacilla minuta Berland, 1929b: 70, f. 69-72 (Df) Original description

Flacilla minuta Marples, 1955a: 470, pl. 57, f. 8 (Dm)

Flacillula minuta Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997: 125, f. 66-68, 71-74 (mf)

Flacillula minuta Dierkens & Charlat, 2013: 68, f. 9-10 (m)

Iona minuta Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021: 1270 (T from Flacillula)

Iona nigrovittata (Keyserling, 1882) | | Tonga urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034113 TYPE SPECIES

Erasmia nigrovittata Keyserling, 1882: 1351, pl. 114, f. 7 (Df) Original description

Iona nigrovittata Peckham & Peckham, 1886: 282 (generic replacement name)

Iona nigrovittata [?] Prószyński, 2017b: 18, f. 6C (f)

Iona nitens (Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997) | | Caroline Is. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033448

Flacillula nitens Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997: 127, f. 69-70 (Df) Original description

Iona nitens Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021: 1270 (T from Flacillula)

Iona opelli (Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997) | | Caroline Is. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034252

Ligurra opelli Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997: 128, f. 75-80 (Dmf) Original description

Iona opelli Bopearachchi & Benjamin, 2021: 1270 (T from Ligurra)