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. Sigytes Simon, 1902 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03224

type Sigytes paradisiacus Simon, 1902; gender masculine

Transferred to other genera:

Sigytes dialeuca (L. Koch, 1881) -- see Maratus

Sigytes scutulatus (L. Koch, 1881) -- see Maratus

Sigytes albocinctus (Keyserling, 1881) | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036153

Hasarius albocinctus Keyserling, 1881a: 1277, pl. 109, f. 4 (Df) Original description

Sigytes albocinctus Simon, 1903a: 734

Sigytes diloris (Keyserling, 1881) | | Australia (Queensland) to Fiji urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036154

Hasarius diloris Keyserling, 1881a: 1302, pl. 111, f. 3 (Df) Original description

Sigytes diloris Rainbow, 1913: 16

Sigytes diloris Prószyński, 1984a: 130 (m)

Sigytes paradisiacus Simon, 1902 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036155 TYPE SPECIES

Sigytes paradisiacus Simon, 1902a: 401 (Dm) Original description