Thomisidae Sundevall, 1833

Family |   ACCEPTED
N.B.: Includes Aphantochilidae as "a subfamily related to the Strophiinae" (Ono, 1988c: 217-218, after Homann, 1975: 184; see also Benjamin, 2011: 8 and Teixeira, Campos & Lise, 2014: 73). Separation of Borboropactidae Wunderlich, 2004 (Wunderlich, 2004m: 1738, Murphy & Roberts, 2015: viii) not sufficiently justified and is not accepted here. Lehtinen, 2016 splits the family into five families, i.e. Thomisidae s. str., Borboropactidae Wunderlich, 2004, Stephanopidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871, Stiphropidae Simon, 1886 [sub Stiphropodidae; for nomenclatural author and year see Simon, 1886b: 170] and Bomidae Simon, 1886 [for nomenclatural author and year see Simon, 1886b: 173]; because of lack of a phylogenetic analysis and partly unclear limitations this splitting is not accepted; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 518, f. 17-18.
Gen. Cynathea Simon, 1895 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02654

Transferred to other genera:

Cynathea rutenbergi (Karsch, 1881) -- see Cyriogonus

Cynathea vinsoni (Thorell, 1875) -- see Cyriogonus

Cynathea bicolor Simon, 1895 | | Senegal, Nigeria, Gabon, Angola, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030242
Cynathea bicolor Simon, 1895b: 437 (Dj) Original description
Cynathea bicolor Jézéquel, 1964c: 1118, f. 20a-c (Dm)
Cynathea bicolor Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020u: 20, 3 f. (m)
Cynathea mechowi (Karsch, 1881) | | Angola urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030243
Platythomisus mechowi Karsch, 1881g: 288 (Df) Original description
Cynathea mechovi Simon, 1895a: 1017
Cynathea obliterata Simon, 1895 | | Gabon urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030244
Cynathea obliterata Simon, 1895b: 436 (Df) Original description

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