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:

Platypyresthesis Simon, 1903 = Sylligma Simon, 1895 (Lehtinen, 2004: 152)

Gen. Sylligma Simon, 1895 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02763

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Platypyresthesis Simon, 1903 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02736] (type Pyresthesis cribrata Simon, 1901) by Lehtinen, 2004: 152.

Sylligma cribrata (Simon, 1901) | | Ethiopia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031016

Pyresthesis cribrata Simon, 1901d: 22 (Df) Original description

Platypyresthesis cribrata Simon, 1903a: 1014

Sylligma franki Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2011 | | Congo, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043852

Sylligma franki Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2011: 121, f. 1-6 (Dmf) Original description

Sylligma hirsuta Simon, 1895 | | Gabon, Congo, Rwanda, Namibia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031217

Sylligma hirsuta Simon, 1895a: 990 (Df) Original description

Sylligma hirsuta Lessert, 1943: 314, f. 10-13 (f, Dm)

Sylligma hirsuta Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2011: 123, f. 7-10 (f, Dm)

Sylligma lawrencei Millot, 1942 | | Gabon, Nigeria, Guinea, Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031218

Sylligma lawrencei Millot, 1942: 10, f. 4A-B (Df) Original description

Sylligma lawrencei Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2011: 124, f. 11-14 (f, Dm)

Sylligma ndumi Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2011 | | Botswana, South Africa, Eswatini urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043853

Sylligma ndumi Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2011: 126, f. 15-20 (Dmf) Original description

Sylligma ndumi Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020w: 13, 12: 2 f., 13: 5 f. (mf)

Sylligma spartica Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2011 | | Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043854

Sylligma spartica Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2011: 128, f. 21-22 (Dm) Original description

Sylligma theresa Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2011 | | Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043855

Sylligma theresa Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2011: 129, f. 23-26 (Dmf) Original description