World Spider Catalog

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.

In synonymy:

Cupa Strand, 1906 = Epidius Thorell, 1877 (Benjamin, 2011: 14)

Dolothymus Thorell, 1890 = Epidius Thorell, 1877 (Simon, 1897a: 8, 10)

Pothaeus Thorell, 1895 = Epidius Thorell, 1877 (Benjamin, 2017a: 470, Lehtinen, 2016: 159)

Gen. Epidius Thorell, 1877 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02668

type Epidius longipalpis Thorell, 1877; gender masculine

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Dolothymus Thorell, 1890c: 150 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06288] (type D. pallidus Thorell, 1890) by Simon, 1897a: 8, 10, of Cupa Strand, in Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 265 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02651] (type C. typica Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) by Benjamin, 2011: 14 and of Pothaeus Thorell, 1895: 265 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02740] (type P. armatus Thorell, 1895) by Lehtinen, 2016: 159 and by Benjamin, 2017: 470.

Transferred to other genera:

Epidius bipunctatus (Thorell, 1891) -- see Mastira

Epidius brevipalpus Simon, 1903 -- see Pharta

Epidius gongi (Song & Kim, 1992) -- see Epidius

Epidius kalawitanus (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) -- see Cebrenninus

Epidius zhengi (Ono & Song, 1986) -- see Pharta

In synonymy:

Epidius bazarus (Tikader, 1970) = Epidius armatus (Thorell, 1895) (Benjamin, 2017a: 473)

Epidius ganxiensis (Yin, Peng & Kim, 1999) = Epidius rubropictus Simon, 1909 (Benjamin, 2011: 15)

Epidius longitibiacus (Yin, Peng & Kim, 1999, T from Philodromus) = Epidius gongi (Song & Kim, 1992) (Tang et al., 2009: 44)

Epidius armatus (Thorell, 1895) | | India, Myanmar, Laos, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031038

Pothaeus armatus Thorell, 1895b: 276 (Df) Original description

Platythomisus bazarus Tikader, 1970: 48, f. 27a-c (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031017]

Platythomisus bazarus Tikader, 1971a: 65, f. 17M-P (f)

Platythomisus bazarus Tikader, 1980a: 171, f. 237-239 (f)

Epidius bazarus Tang et al., 2009: 42, f. 2A-F (f, T from Platythomisus)

Epidius bazarus Tang & Li, 2010b: 8, f. 1A-B, 2A-E, 3A-B (Dm)

Epidius armatus Lehtinen, 2016: 159 (T from Pothaeus)

Epidius armatus Benjamin, 2017a: 473, f. 1a-f (f, S of Epidius bazarus)

Epidius binotatus Simon, 1897 | | Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Gabon, DR Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030371

Epidius binotatus Simon, 1897b: 491 (Df) Original description

Epidius binotatus Lessert, 1930: 666, f. 36 (Dm)

Epidius binotatus Lessert, 1943: 335, f. 38 (f)

Epidius binotatus Benjamin, 2011: 14, f. 33A-C, 34A-D, 38E-F (mf)

Epidius binotatus guineensis Millot, 1942 | | Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030372

Epidius binotatus guineensis Millot, 1942: 64, f. 30A-F (Dm) Original description

Epidius coloratus Benjamin, 2017 | | Malaysia (Borneo), Brunei urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049267

Epidius coloratus Benjamin, 2017a: 474, f. 2e-f, 3a-b (Dm) Original description

Epidius denisi Lessert, 1943 | | DR Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030375

Epidius denisi Lessert, 1943: 336, f. 39 (Df) Original description

Epidius elongatus Benjamin, 2017 | | Thailand, Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049268

Epidius elongatus Benjamin, 2017a: 474, f. 2c, 4b (Dm) Original description

Epidius elongatus Dhiya'ulhaq et al., 2025a: 223, f. 13C, 14A-F (m)

Epidius floreni Benjamin, 2017 | | Malaysia (Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049269

Epidius floreni Benjamin, 2017a: 477, f. 2a-b,d, 4a,c-d (Dmf) Original description

Epidius gongi (Song & Kim, 1992) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030230

Cupa gongi Song & Kim, 1992: 141, f. 1-7 (Dmf) Original description

Cupa gongi Song & Zhu, 1997: 23, f. 10A-G (mf)

Cupa gongi Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 480, f. 274H, 277C, L (mf)

Philodromus longitibiacus Yin, Peng & Kim, 1999: 356, f. 3A-D (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029862]

Epidius gongi Tang et al., 2009: 44, f. 4A-I (mf, T from Cupa, S of Philodromus longitibiacus)

Epidius gongi Yin et al., 2012: 1262, f. 678a-f (mf)

Epidius longimanus Benjamin, 2017 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049270

Epidius longimanus Benjamin, 2017a: 478, f. 2g, 5a-d, 6a-c, 8c (Dmf) Original description

Epidius longipalpis Thorell, 1877 | | India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Seram, Sulawesi) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030376 TYPE SPECIES

Epidius longipalpis Thorell, 1877b: 492 (Dm) Original description

Epidius longipalpis Badcock, 1918: 285, f. 3

Epidius longipalpis Simon, 1897a: 10, f. 6-8 (m)

Epidius longipalpis Merian, 1911: 250 (Df)

Epidius lyriger Simon, 1897 | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030377

Epidius lyriger Simon, 1897b: 491 (Df) Original description

Epidius mahavira Benjamin, 2017 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049271

Epidius mahavira Benjamin, 2017a: 481, f. 5e, 7a-e, 8a-b,d-e, 9a-e (Dmf) Original description

Epidius pallidus (Thorell, 1890) | | Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030378

Dolothymus pallidus Thorell, 1890c: 150 (Df) Original description

Epidius pallidus Simon, 1897a: 8

Epidius pallidus Reimoser, 1934a: 15 (Dm)

Epidius parvati Benjamin, 2000 | | Sri Lanka, India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030379

Epidius parvati Benjamin, 2000: 284, f. 1-23 (Dmf) Original description

Epidius parvati Benjamin, 2011: 14, f. 7D, 36A-E, 37A-F, 38A-D (m)

Epidius parvati Malamel & Sudhikumar, 2017: 1, f. 1A-F, 2A-D (mf)

Epidius rubropictus Simon, 1909 | | China, Vietnam urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030380

Epidius rubropictus Simon, 1909e: 144 (Dm) Original description

Philodromus ganxiensis Yin, Peng & Kim, 1999: 356, f. 2A-G (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029823]

Epidius ganxiensis Tang et al., 2009: 44, f. 3A-J (mf, T from Philodromus)

Epidius rubropictus Benjamin, 2011: 15, f. 35C (m, S of Epidius ganxiensis; f f. 5I, 35D-E see Ibana svarnadvipa)

Epidius ganxiensis Yin et al., 2012: 1261, f. 677a-f (mf)

Epidius typicus (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) | | Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030232

Cupa typica Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 266, pl. 16, f. 454 (Df) Original description

Cupa typica Yaginuma, 1986a: 214, f. 119 (f)

Cupa typica Ono, 1988c: 21, f. 6-10 (f)

Cupa typica Ono, 2009a: 504, f. 40-44 (f)

Epidius typicus Benjamin, 2011: 15, f. 35A-B (f)