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:

Paramystaria Lessert, 1919 = Mystaria Simon, 1895 (Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014: 107)

Gen. Mystaria Simon, 1895 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02705

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Paramystaria Lessert, 1919: 102 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02716] (type P. variabilis Lessert, 1919) by Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014: 107 (through transfer of the type species).

Transferred to other genera:

Mystaria unicolor Simon, 1895 -- see Ansistaria

Mystaria budongo Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 | | Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047231

Mystaria budongo Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014: 114, f. 5, 10, 43-44, 111-114 (Dm) Original description

Mystaria decorata (Lessert, 1919) | | East Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030930

Paramystaria decorata Lessert, 1919: 106, pl. 2, f. 25, 33 (Df) Original description

Mystaria decorata Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014: 135 (T from Paramystaria=Mystaria)

Mystaria flavoguttata (Lawrence, 1952) | | DR Congo, South Africa, Eswatini urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030931

Paramystaria flavoguttata Lawrence, 1952b: 14, f. 8a-b (Dj) Original description

Mystaria flavoguttata Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014: 118, f. 2, 11-13, 45-48 (Dmf, Tj from Paramystaria=Mystaria)

Mystaria flavogutatta Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020v: 4, 6 f. (mf, lapsus)

Mystaria irmatrix Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 | | Mozambique, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047234

Mystaria irmatrix Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014: 119, f. 14-16, 49-52 (Dmf) Original description

Mystaria irmatrix Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020v: 5, 5 f. (mf)

Mystaria lata (Lawrence, 1927) | | Namibia, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030932

Paramystaria lata Lawrence, 1927: 32, pl. 1, f. 20 (Df) Original description

Mystaria lata Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014: 120, f. 17-19, 53-56 (Dm, Tf from Paramystaria=Mystaria)

Mystaria lata Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020v: 6, 5 f. (mf)

Mystaria lindaicapensis Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047235

Mystaria lindaicapensis Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014: 121, f. 20-22, 57-60 (Dmf) Original description

Mystaria lindaicapensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020v: 7, 5 f. (mf)

Mystaria mnyama Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047236

Mystaria mnyama Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014: 122, f. 23-25, 61-64 (Dmf) Original description

Mystaria mnyama Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020v: 8, 5 f. (mf)

Mystaria occidentalis (Millot, 1942) | | Guinea, Cameroon, Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030935

Paramystaria variabilis occidentalis Millot, 1942: 8, f. 3A-C (Df) Original description

Mystaria occidentalis Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014: 123, f. 26-28, 65-68 (Dm, Tf from Paramystaria=Mystaria, elevated to species)

Mystaria occidentalis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020v: 9, 5 f. (mf)

Mystaria oreadae Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 | | Rwanda, Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047237

Mystaria oreadae Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014: 126, f. 29-30, 69-70, 95-98 (Df) Original description

Mystaria rufolimbata Simon, 1895 | | Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, DR Congo, Mozambique, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030774

Mystaria rufolimbata Simon, 1895a: 989 (Df) Original description

Mystaria rufolimbata Jézéquel, 1964c: 1111, f. 9 (f)

Mystaria rufolimbata Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014: 126, f. 1, 31-32, 71-74, 91-94, 103-106 (f, Dm)

Mystaria rufolimbata Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020v: 10, 3: 2 f., 10: 5 f. (mf)

Mystaria savannensis Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 | | Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047232

Mystaria savannensis Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014: 127, f. 3, 33-35, 75-78, 99-102 (Dmf) Original description

Mystaria savannensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020v: 11, 11: 4 f., 12: 4 f. (mf)

Mystaria soleil Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 | | Uganda, Kenya urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047233

Mystaria soleil Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014: 130, f. 4, 36-37, 79-82, 107-110 (Dmf) Original description

Mystaria stakesbyi Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 | | Congo, Liberia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047238

Mystaria stakesbyi Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014: 131, f. 38-39, 83-86 (Dmf) Original description

Mystaria variabilis (Lessert, 1919) | | Ethiopia, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030933

Paramystaria variabilis Lessert, 1919: 103, f. 2-4, pl. 2, f. 14, 21, 27, 42 (Dmf) Original description

Mystaria variabilis Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014: 133, f. 40-42, 87-90 (Tmf from Paramystaria=Mystaria)

Mystaria variabilis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020v: 13, 5 f. (mf)

Mystaria variabilis delesserti (Caporiacco, 1949) | | Kenya urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030934

Paramystaria variabilis delesserti Caporiacco, 1949a: 454 (Df) Original description

Mystaria variabilis delesserti Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014: 135 (T from Paramystaria=Mystaria)