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:

Atrytone Keyserling, 1882 = Tara G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1886 (Peckham & Peckham, 1886: 272, preoccupied, replacement name)

Gen. Tara G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1886 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03255

type Atrytone anomala Keyserling, 1882; gender feminine

N.B.: replacement name for Atrytone Keyserling, 1882: 1378 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06011], preoccupied in Lepidoptera by Scudder, 1872.

Tara anomala (Keyserling, 1882) | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036458 TYPE SPECIES

Atrytone anomala Keyserling, 1882: 1378, pl. 116, f. 6 (Dm) Original description

Tara anomala Peckham & Peckham, 1886: 272

Tara anomala Żabka, 1987a: 448, f. 22-25 (m)

Tara anomala Davies & Żabka, 1989: 214, pl. 20 (m)

Tara gratiosa (Rainbow, 1920) | | Australia (Lord Howe Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036459

Clynotis gratiosus Rainbow, 1920b: 266, pl. 31, f. 110-113 (Dmf) Original description

Tara gratiosa Żabka, 1991c: 56 (T from Clynotis)

Tara gratiosa Richardson, 2016: 549, f. 199-214 (mf, T confirmed)

Tara parvula (Keyserling, 1883) | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036460

Icius parvulus Keyserling, 1883b: 1449, pl. 122, f. 5 (Df) Original description

Clynotis parvulus Rainbow, 1911: 293

Tara parvula Żabka, 1991c: 56 (T from Clynotis)