World Spider Catalog

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.

In synonymy:

Robertia Saaristo, 2006 = Seycellesa Koçak & Kemal, 2008 (Koçak & Kemal, 2008a: 4, preoccupied, replacement name)

Homonym replaced:

Robertia Saaristo, 2006 -- see Seycellesa Koçak & Kemal, 2008

Gen. Seycellesa Koçak & Kemal, 2008 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03847

N.B.: replacement name for Robertia Saaristo, 2006: 70 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03642], preoccupied in fossil Reptilia by Boonstra, 1948.

In synonymy:

Seycellesa purifum (Roberts, 1978) = Seycellesa braueri Simon, 1898 (Saaristo, 1999: 3, sub Theridion, sub Robertia)

Seycellesa braueri (Simon, 1898) | | Seychelles urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008265

Theridion braueri Simon, 1898d: 376, f. 1-2 (Dm) Original description

Theridion purifum Roberts, 1978: 909, f. 15-19 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056253]

Theridion braueri Saaristo, 1999: 3 (S of Theridion purifum)

Robertia braueri Saaristo, 2006: 72, f. 64-66 (mf, T from Theridion)

Seycellesa braueri Koçak & Kemal, 2008a: 4 (T from Robertia)

Robertia braueri Saaristo, 2010: 263, f. 37.107-109 (mf)

Seycellesa braueri Vanuytven, 2021: 44, 255, f. A.33c, B.273 (m)