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. Metadiaea Mello-Leitão, 1929 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02699
N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Misumenops F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 by Lehtinen, 1993: 588 (contra Rinaldi, 1983: 147), restricted to type species, M. fidelis Mello-Leitão, 1929 only.
Metadiaea fidelis Mello-Leitão, 1929 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030527
Metadiaea fidelis Mello-Leitão, 1929d: 237, f. 118-119, 129 (Dmf) Original description

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