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. Simorcus Simon, 1895 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02753

In synonymy:

Simorcus zuluanus Lawrence, 1942 = Simorcus cotti Lessert, 1936 (van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010: 75)

Simorcus asiaticus Ono & Song, 1989 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031104

Simorcus asiaticus Ono & Song, 1989: 118, f. 1-5 (Dmf) Original description

Simorcus asiaticus Chen & Zhang, 1991: 275, f. 286.1-5 (mf)

Simorcus asiaticus Song & Zhu, 1997: 30, f. 14A-E (mf)

Simorcus asiaticus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 486, f. 275K, 281K, 282I (mf)

Simorcus asiaticus Yin et al., 2012: 1269, f. 682a-c (m)

Simorcus capensis Simon, 1895 | | Tanzania, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031105

Simorcus capensis Simon, 1895a: 964 (Df) Original description

Simorcus capensis Lessert, 1923: 164, f. 5-10 (f, Dm)

Simorcus capensis van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010: 69, f. 1a-d, 5a (mf)

Simorcus capensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020v: 63, 3 f. (mf)

Simorcus coronatus Simon, 1907 | | West, Central Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031106

Simorcus coronatus Simon, 1907d: 311 (Df) Original description

Simorcus coronatus Lessert, 1928: 303, f. 1-2 (f)

Simorcus coronatus Jézéquel, 1964c: 1106, f. 3a-c (Dm)

Simorcus coronatus van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010: 73, f. 2i-j, 3b-c (mf)

Simorcus coronatus Teixeira, Campos & Lise, 2014: 74, f. 11D, 16A, 18C, F (mf)

Simorcus cotti Lessert, 1936 | | Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031107

Simorcus cotti Lessert, 1936: 251, f. 46-48 (Df) Original description

Simorcus zuluanus Lawrence, 1942: 147, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031108]

Simorcus cotti van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010: 75, f. 1e-h, 4a-d, 5b (f, Dm, S of Simorcus zuluanus)

Simorcus cotti Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020v: 64, 62: 2 f., 64: 6 f., 65: 2 f. (mf)

Simorcus cummingae van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010 | | Botswana, Zimbabwe urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043223

Simorcus cummingae van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010: 80, f. 2k-m, 3e, 5c (Dmf) Original description

Simorcus guinea van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010 | | Guinea, Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043224

Simorcus guinea van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010: 81, f. 2c-d (Df) Original description

Simorcus haddadi van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043222

Simorcus haddadi van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010: 71, f. 2a-b, 3a, 5d (Dmf) Original description

Simorcus haddadi Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020v: 66, 6 f. (mf)

Simorcus hakos van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010 | | Namibia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043225

Simorcus hakos van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010: 82, f. 2e-f (Df) Original description

Simorcus itombwe van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010 | | Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043226

Simorcus itombwe van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010: 82, f. 3d, 5g (Dm) Original description

Simorcus kalemie van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010 | | Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043227

Simorcus kalemie van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010: 83, f. 3g, 5e (Dm) Original description

Simorcus lotzi van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010 | | Namibia, Botswana, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043228

Simorcus lotzi van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010: 84, f. 3h, 5f (Dm) Original description

Simorcus lotzi Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020v: 67, 4 f. (m)

Simorcus okavango van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010 | | Botswana urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043229

Simorcus okavango van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010: 84, f. 2g-h (Df) Original description

Simorcus vanharteni van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010 | | Yemen, Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043230

Simorcus vanharteni van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2010: 85, f. 2n-o, 3f, 5h (Dmf) Original description