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. Semiopyla Simon, 1901 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03218

type Semiopyla cataphracta Simon, 1901; gender feminine

In synonymy:

Semiopyla biimpressa Simon, 1901 = Semiopyla cataphracta Simon, 1901 (Cutler, 1971b: 144)

Semiopyla cataphracta Simon, 1901 | | Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036113 TYPE SPECIES

Semiopyla cataphracta Simon, 1901a: 577, f. 692-694 (Dm) Original description

Semiopyla biimpressa Simon, 1901a: 575 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064896]

Semiopyla biimpressa Galiano, 1963a: 442, pl. 34, f. 6 (f)

Semiopyla cataphracta Galiano, 1963a: 443, pl. 34, f. 8-12 (m)

Semiopyla cataphracta Cutler, 1971b: 144, f. 1-6 (mf, S of Semiopyla biimpressa)

Semiopyla cataphracta Galiano, 1985b: 282, f. 1-5, 20 (mf)

Semiopyla cataphracta Prószyński, 2017b: 69, f. 32C (mf)

Semiopyla cataphracta Suarez-Martinez et al., 2025: 66, f. 2A-F, 3A-C, 4A-B, 5A-G (mf)

Semiopyla triarmata Galiano, 1985 | | Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036114

Semiopyla triarmata Galiano, 1985b: 287, f. 9, 12-13, 17-19 (Dmf) Original description

Semiopyla viperina Galiano, 1985 | | Paraguay, Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036115

Semiopyla viperina Galiano, 1985b: 284, f. 6-8, 10-11, 14-16, 21-23 (Dmf) Original description

Semiopyla viperina Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 105, f. 66A-B, 71, 72A-C, 73A-B (mf)