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:

Zametopias Thorell, 1892 = Nyctimus Thorell, 1877 (Lehtinen, 2016: 166)

Gen. Nyctimus Thorell, 1877 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02707

type Nyctimus bistriatus Thorell, 1877; gender masculine

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Zametopias Thorell, 1892c: 122 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02787] (type Z. speculator Thorell, 1892) by Lehtinen, 2016: 166.

In synonymy:

Nyctimus speculator (Thorell, 1892, T from Zametopias) = Nyctimus bistriatus Thorell, 1877 (Lehtinen, 2016: 166)

Nyctimus bistriatus Thorell, 1877 | | Borneo (Malaysia, Brunei), Indonesia (Sumatra, Sulawesi) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030777 TYPE SPECIES

Nyctimus bistriatus Thorell, 1877b: 499 (Dm) Original description

Zametopias speculator Thorell, 1892a: 123 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032124]

Nyctimus binotatus Lehtinen, 2016: 166 (lapsus, S of Zametopias speculator)

Nyctimus bistriatus Benjamin et al., 2025: 98, f. 1A-B, 2A-D, 3A-D (mf)

Nyctimus falcatus Benjamin & Dhiya'ulhaq, 2025 | | Thailand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066174

Nyctimus falcatus Benjamin & Dhiya'ulhaq in Benjamin et al., 2025: 102, f. 4A-C (Dm) Original description

Nyctimus kinabaluensis Benjamin & Dhiya'ulhaq, 2025 | | Borneo (Malaysia, Brunei), Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066175

Nyctimus kinabaluensis Benjamin & Dhiya'ulhaq in Benjamin et al., 2025: 103, f. 5A-B, 6A-D, 7A-D (Dmf) Original description

Nyctimus mutilloides Benjamin & Dhiya'ulhaq, 2025 | | Malaysia (Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066176

Nyctimus mutilloides Benjamin & Dhiya'ulhaq in Benjamin et al., 2025: 106, f. 8A-C (Dm) Original description

Nyctimus quadripunctatus Dhiya'ulhaq & Benjamin, 2025 | | Malaysia (Borneo), Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066177

Nyctimus quadripunctatus Dhiya'ulhaq & Benjamin in Benjamin et al., 2025: 108, f. 9A-D, 10A-D, 11A-D, 12A-C (Dmf) Original description

Nyctimus rendang Dhiya'ulhaq & Benjamin, 2025 | | Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066178

Nyctimus rendang Dhiya'ulhaq & Benjamin in Benjamin et al., 2025: 113, f. 13A-D, 14A-E, 15A-D (Dmf) Original description

Nyctimus saksang Dhiya'ulhaq & Benjamin, 2025 | | Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066179

Nyctimus saksang Dhiya'ulhaq & Benjamin in Benjamin et al., 2025: 117, f. 16A-D, 17A-B (Dm) Original description

Nyctimus trimeni (Simon, 1895) | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032125

Zametopias trimeni Simon, 1895b: 432 (Df) Original description

Nyctimus trimeni Lehtinen, 2016: 166 (T from Zametopias)