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. Pignus Wesołowska, 2000 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03157

type Euophrys simoni Peckham & Peckham, 1903; gender masculine

Pignus lautissimum Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 | | Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035626

Pignus lautissimum Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 89, f. 241-247 (Dm) Original description

Pignus pongola Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042466

Pignus pongola Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 73, f. 147-151, 224 (Dm) Original description

Pignus simoni (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903) | | Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035627 TYPE SPECIES

Euophrys simonii Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 202, pl. 22, f. 4 (Dm) Original description

Pignus simoni Wesołowska, 2000a: 166, f. 60-66 (m, T from Euophrys)

Pignus simoni Haddad & Wesołowska, 2011: 107, f. 140, 161-165 (m)

Pignus simoni Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011: 92, f. 61-69, 98 (m, Df)

Pignus simoni Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 55, f. 39A-D (mf)