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. Macopaeus Simon, 1900 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03042

type Macopaeus spinosus Simon, 1900; gender masculine

Transferred to other genera:

Macopaeus celebensis Merian, 1911 -- see Brettus

Macopaeus madagascarensis G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 -- see Brettus

Macopaeus spinosus Simon, 1900 | | Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034373 TYPE SPECIES

Macopaeus spinosus Simon, 1900b: 381 (Df) Original description

Macopaeus spinosus Wanless, 1980a: 220, f. 1A-F (f)

Macopaeus spinosus Wanless, 1980d: 216, f. 2F

Macopaeus spinosus Prószyński, 2017b: 125, f. 54F (f)