Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Family |   ACCEPTED
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Hadrotarsidae Thorell, 1881: 190 (sub Hardotarsoidae, 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 Simon, 1894a: 512 (sub Spinthareae); the subfamily Theonoeinae Simon, 1894a: 586 (sub Theonoeae) (synonym Pholcommatinae Simon, 1894a: 589, sub Pholcommateae), which include Theonoe Simon, 1881, Carniella Thaler & Steinberger, 1988, Robertus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879 and Pholcomma Thorell, 1869, is circumscribed by Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 51; Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 also mention the subfamilies Argyrodinae Simon, 1881a: 14 (sub Argyrodini) and Latrodectinae Petrunkevitch, 1928: 117 (junior synyonym of Dipoeninae Simon, 1894a: 561, sub Dipoeneae).
Gen. Anatea Berland, 1927 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00665
type Anatea formicaria Berland, 1927; gender feminine
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 TYPE SPECIES
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

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