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:

Avakubia Lessert, 1927 = Pellolessertia Strand, 1929 (Strand, 1929: 14, preoccupied, replacement name)

Gen. Pellolessertia Strand, 1929 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03141

type Avakubia castanea Lessert, 1927; gender feminine

N.B.: replacement name for Avakubia Lessert, 1927: 440 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05777], preoccupied in Gastropoda by Pilsbry, 1919.

Pellolessertia castanea (Lessert, 1927) | | Cameroon, Ethiopia, DR Congo, Uganda urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035324 TYPE SPECIES

Avakubia castanea Lessert, 1927: 442, f. 22-24 (Dmf) Original description

Pellolessertia castanea Strand, 1929: 14 (generic replacement name)

Pellolessertia castanea Prószyński, 1984a: 169 (f)

Pellolessertia castanea Szűts & Scharff, 2005: 364, f. 4A-E (m)

Pellolessertia castanea Prószyński, 2017b: 129, f. 56O (f)

Pellolessertia castanea Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 86, f. 55A-B (f)