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. Geraesta Simon, 1889 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02673

In synonymy:

Geraesta bilobata Simon, 1897 = Geraesta hirta Simon, 1889 (Benjamin, 2011: 16)

Geraesta ansieae Benjamin, 2015 | | Rwanda urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047950
Geraesta ansieae Benjamin, 2015a: 311, f. 1-4 (Dm) Original description
Geraesta congoensis (Lessert, 1943) | | Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Botswana, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031131
Stephanopis congoensis Lessert, 1943: 333, f. 35-37 (Dmf) Original description
Geraesta congoensis Benjamin, 2015a: 313, f. 5-8, 12-15 (Tmf from Stephanopis)
Geraesta congoensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020u: 32, 31: 2 f., 32: 4 f. (mf)
Geraesta hirta Simon, 1889 | | Comoros, Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030413
Geraesta hirta Simon, 1889b: 225 (Dj) Original description
Geraesta hirta Simon, 1897a: 7, f. 3-4 (j)
Geraesta bilobata Simon, 1897a: 7, f. 5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030412]
Geraesta hirta Benjamin, 2011: 15, f. 7F, 39A-E, 40A-F, 41A-F (m, Df, S)
Geraesta hirta Ramírez, 2014: 223, f. 151A-B, 172F-G (mf)
Geraesta hirta Benjamin, 2015a: 313, f. 9-11, 16 (mf)
Geraesta hirta Machado & Teixeira, 2021: 299, f. 9d, 14g, 19c (m)
Geraesta lehtineni Benjamin, 2011 | | Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044389
Geraesta lehtineni Benjamin, 2011: 16, f. 42AD, 43A-F (Dmf) Original description
Geraesta mkwawa Benjamin, 2011 | | Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044390
Geraesta mkwawa Benjamin, 2011: 17, f. 6E-F, 44A-D, 45A-F, 46A-F (Dmf) Original description
Geraesta octolobata (Simon, 1886) | | Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031155
Stephanopis octolobata Simon, 1886b: 170 (Df) Original description
Geraesta octolobata Benjamin, 2015a: 315, f. 17-26 (Tf from Stephanopis, Dm)

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