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. Pilia Simon, 1902 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03158

type Pilia saltabunda Simon, 1902; gender feminine

Transferred to other genera:

Pilia albicoma Szombathy, 1915 -- see Simaetha

Pilia escheri Reimoser, 1934 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035629

Pilia escheri Reimoser, 1934b: 501, f. 23 (Dm) Original description

Pilia escheri Prószyński, 1983b: 287, f. 13-15 (m)

Pilia malenadu Caleb, 2025 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066306

Pilia malenadu Caleb in Caleb et al., 2025b: 281, f. 1-28 (Dmf) Original description

Pilia saltabunda Simon, 1902 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035630 TYPE SPECIES

Pilia saltabunda Simon, 1902d: 402 (Dm) Original description

Pilia saltabunda Simon, 1903a: 856, f. 1007-1010 (m)

Pilia saltabunda Prószyński, 1987: 77 (m)

Pilia saltabunda Prószyński, 2017b: 26, f. 11Q (m)