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.

Gen. Massuria Thorell, 1887 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02696

N.B.: see note under Pistius Simon, 1875.

Transferred to other genera:

Massuria javana Simon, 1895 -- see Zygometis

In synonymy:

Massuria bellula Xu, Han & Li, 2008 = Massuria simplex Xu, Han & Li, 2008 (Li et al., 2023f: 303)

Nomen dubium:

Massuria roonwali (Basu, 1964: 104, f. 1a-b, f, India, originally in Pistius) -- Sherwood & Caleb, 2024: 115

Massuria angulata Thorell, 1887 | | Myanmar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030517

Massuria angulata Thorell, 1887: 278 (Df) Original description

Massuria bandian Tang & Li, 2010 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043682

Massuria bandian Tang & Li, 2010b: 29, f. 18A-D, 19A-B (Dm) Original description

Massuria bandian Li et al., 2023f: 301, f. 1A-D, 2A-E (m, Df)

Massuria daizong Lin & Li, 2023 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057161

Massuria daizong Lin & Li in Lin, Li & Pham, 2023: 74, f. 65A-B, 66A-B, 67A-B, 69G-H (Dmf) Original description

Massuria min Yao & Li, 2023 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058948

Massuria min Li et al., 2023f: 306, f. 5A-D, 6C-D (Df) Original description

Massuria ovalis Tang & Li, 2010 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043683

Massuria ovalis Tang & Li, 2010b: 29, f. 20A-D, 21A-B (Dm) Original description

Massuria simplex (Xu, Han & Li, 2008) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041423

Pistius gangulyi Yaginuma & Wen, 1983: 193, f. 1A-C (f; misidentified per Li et al., 2023f: 303)

Diaea simplex Xu, Han & Li, 2008: 14, f. 1a-e (Dm) Original description

Massuria bellula Xu, Han & Li, 2008: 15, f. 2a-c (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041424]

Massuria simplex Li et al., 2023f: 303, f. 3A-D, 4A-I, 6A-B (mf, T from Diaea, S of Massuria bellula)

Massuria sreepanchamii (Tikader, 1962) | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031003

Pistius sreepanchamii Tikader, 1962b: 571, f. 4a-b (Df) Original description

Pistius sreepanchamii Tikader, 1968b: 105, f. 10-12 (f, Dm; m is a misidentified Diaea per Lehtinen, 2004: 175)

Pistius sreepanchamii Tikader, 1971a: 30, f. 10A-C (mf)

Pistius sreepanchamii Tikader, 1980a: 71, f. 102-104 (mf)

Massuria sreepanchamii Lehtinen, 2004: 148, 175 (T from Pistius)

Massuria uthoracica Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2012 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048093

Massuria uthoracica Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2012c: 910, f. 1-5, 21 (Df) Original description

Massuria uthoracica Sen et al., 2015: 64, f. 334-338, pl. 17 (f)

Massuria watari Ono, 2002 | | Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039037

Massuria watari Ono, 2002e: 207, f. 19-22 (Dm) Original description

Massuria watari Ono, 2009a: 528, f. 306-310 (m, Df)