World Spider Catalog

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: relimited by Forster & Platnick, 1977: 2; considered a senior synonym of Symphytognathidae and Mysmenidae by Wunderlich, 1986, but rejected by Wunderlich, 2011: 512; considered a senior synonym of Micropholcommatidae by Schütt, 2003: 133 and Lopardo, Giribet & Hormiga, 2011: 316, re-elevation to family level by Eskov & Marusik, 2023: 341 and Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 not accepted here (by majority vote of the WSC boards); considered a senior synonym of Holarchaeidae [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0108] by Dimitrov et al., 2017: 240 (confirmed by Eskov & Marusik, 2023: 342 and Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52); the family name "Hawkeswoodidae", proposed by Makhan & Ezzatpanah, 2011d: 1, is a nomen nudum that does not refer to a generic name (Jiménez, Platnick & Dupérré, 2011: 17; see Pseudanapis); the family status of the Comaromidae Wunderlich, 2004h: 1034 (described as subfamily and elevated to family by Wunderlich, 2011: 512, confirmed by Wunderlich, 2023: 22, Eskov & Marusik, 2023: 341 and Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52) is not accepted here (by majority vote of the WSC boards); Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 list five valid subfamilies (Comaromidae and Micropholcommatidae as seperate, see above): Anapinae, Gigiellinae Rix & Harvey, 2010a: 97, Holarchaeinae, Taphiassinae Rix & Harvey, 2010a: 79 and Teutoniellinae Rix & Harvey, 2010a [no page found where this taxon is described, always named 'Teutoniellids'].

Gen. Zangherella Caporiacco, 1949 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00785

type Zangherella minima Caporiacco, 1949; gender feminine

N.B.: transferred from the Theridiidae to the Symphytognathidae by Levi & Levi, 1962: 32 and to the Anapidae by Brignoli, 1981b: 116; removed from the synonymy of Pseudanapis Simon, 1905 by Brignoli, 1981b: 116 (contra Brignoli, 1970b: 1413).

In synonymy:

Zangherella minima Caporiacco, 1949 = Zangherella algerica (Simon, 1895) (Brignoli, 1970b: 1413, sub Pseudanapis)

Zangherella algerica (Simon, 1895) | | Italy, Algeria, Tunisia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009177 TYPE SPECIES

Anapis algerica Simon, 1895a: 928, f. 998 (Dmf) Original description

Pseudanapis algerica Kratochvíl, 1935c: 18, 20, f. 13 (m, T from Anapis)

Zangherella minima Caporiacco, 1949g: 260, f. IV (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065108]

Pseudanapis algerica Forster, 1959: 326, f. 156

Zangherella minima Levi & Levi, 1962: 64, f. 317-320 (m)

Pseudanapis algerica Brignoli, 1968a: 132, f. 1-8 (mf)

Pseudanapis algerica Brignoli, 1970b: 1413 (S of Zangherella minima)

Pseudanapis algerica Wunderlich, 1980d: 267, f. 31-36 (mf)

Zangherella algerica Brignoli, 1981b: 119, f. 4 (f, T from Pseudanapis)

Zangherella algerica Thaler & Knoflach, 1998b: 74, f. 2-3, 6 (mf)

Zangherella algerica Le Peru, 2011: 340, f. 589 (mf)

Zangherella apuliae (Caporiacco, 1949) | | Italy, Greece, Turkey urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009178

Pseudanapis apuliae Caporiacco, 1949h: 4, f. 3-6 (Dmf) Original description

Pseudanapis apuliae Caporiacco, 1951b: 97, f. 3-6 (mf)

Pseudanapis apuliae Brignoli, 1968a: 134, f. 9-16 (mf)

Pseudanapis apuliae Brignoli, 1974b: 169, f. 20 (m)

Pseudanapis apuliae Wunderlich, 1980d: 267, f. 39-41 (mf)

Zangherella apuliae Brignoli, 1981b: 120, f. 5 (f, T from Pseudanapis)

Zangherella apuliae Thaler & Knoflach, 1998b: 76, f. 1, 4-5, 7-9 (mf)

Zangherella apuliae Le Peru, 2011: 340, f. 590 (mf)

Zangherella apuliae Kaya et al., 2020: 265, f. 1A-G, 2A-D (mf)

Zangherella relicta (Kratochvíl, 1935) | | Montenegro, Bulgaria urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009179

Pseudanapis relicta Kratochvíl, 1935c: 18, pl. 1, f. 7-12 (Dmf) Original description

Pseudanapis relicta Wunderlich, 1980d: 267, f. 37-38 (m)

Zangherella relicta Brignoli, 1981b: 117 (T from Pseudanapis)

Zangherella relicta Le Peru, 2011: 340, f. 591 (m)

Zangherella relicta Deltshev et al., 2011a: 36, f. 5-13 (mf)