World Spider Catalog

Stenochilidae Thorell, 1873

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: described as family (Stenochiloidae), downgraded to a subfamily of Palpimanidae by Simon, 1893a: 393 and elevated to family rank by Platnick & Shadab, 1974b: 7.

In synonymy:

Metronax Simon, 1893 = Stenochilus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 (Platnick & Shadab, 1974b: 8)

Gen. Stenochilus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00605

type Stenochilus hobsoni O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871; gender masculine

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Metronax Simon, 1893a: 396 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04641] (type Stenochilus crocatus Simon, 1884) by Platnick & Shadab, 1974b: 8.

Transferred to other genera:

Stenochilus laetus Thorell, 1895 -- see Colopea

In synonymy:

Stenochilus raudus Simon, 1884 = Stenochilus hobsoni O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 (Platnick & Shadab, 1974b: 8)

Stenochilus crocatus Simon, 1884 | | Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005510

Stenochilus crocatus Simon, 1884n: 341, f. 4-5 (Df) Original description

Metronax crocatus Simon, 1893a: 396, f. 349-353 (f)

Stenochilus crocatus Platnick & Shadab, 1974b: 9, f. 16-18 (f, T from Metronax)

Stenochilus crocatus Brignoli, 1982c: 455, f. 2-3 (f)

Stenochilus hobsoni O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 | | Iraq, India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005511 TYPE SPECIES

Stenochilus hobsonii O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871b: 729, pl. 44, f. 1 (Dm) Original description

Stenochilus raudus Simon, 1884n: 368 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065211]

Stenochilus hobsoni Simon, 1893a: 396

Metronax raudus Simon, 1893a: 396, f. 354 (m)

Stenochilus hobsoni Platnick & Shadab, 1974b: 8, f. 1-12 (m, Df, S of Metronax raudus)

Stenochilus hobsoni Forster & Platnick, 1984: 81, f. 298, 301, 308-320, 327 (mf)

Stenochilus hobsoni Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006: 234, f. 94g-i (mf)

Stenochilus hobsoni Al-Khazali, 2021a: 4, f. 1a-b, 2a-e (m)

Stenochilus scutulatus Platnick & Shadab, 1974 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005512

Stenochilus scutulatus Platnick & Shadab, 1974b: 9, f. 13, 15 (Dm) Original description