World Spider Catalog

Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Hadrotarsidae Thorell, 1881 (removed from the synonymy of Oonopidae by Roewer, 1963a: 122, contra Roewer, 1942a: 287) by Forster, Platnick & Coddington, 1990: 111 (after Wunderlich, 1978a: 25 and Wunderlich, 1986: 95, contra Baert, 1984a: 615 and Davies, 1985: 67), who recognized an expanded Hadrotarsinae as well as a separate subfamily Spintharinae.

Gen. Anatea Berland, 1927 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00665

N.B.: Transferred from the Clubionidae to the Theridiidae by Reiskind & Levi, 1967: 20. Further undescribed species from New Caledonia figured by Smith et al., 2017: 5 (f. 32-34, 38-41, 43).

Anatea elongata Smith, 2017 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049411

Anatea elongata Smith in Smith et al., 2017: 8, f. 25-30 (Df) Original description

Anatea formicaria Berland, 1927 | | New Caledonia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006917

Anatea formicaria Berland, 1927c: 55, f. 1-7 (Dmf) Original description

Anatea formicaria Reiskind & Levi, 1967: 21, f. 1-6 (m) [misidentified, belongs to an undescribed species, per Smith et al., 2017: 5]

Anatea formicaria Smith et al., 2017: 5, f. 1-11, 42 (mf)

Anatea formicaria Vanuytven, 2021: 59, f. B.10a-b (m)

Anatea monteithi Smith, 2017 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049410

Anatea monteithi Smith in Smith et al., 2017: 6, f. 13-24, 35-37 (Dmf) Original description