World Spider Catalog

Trachycosmidae Platnick, 2002

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: described as subfamily of Trochanteriidae (Platnick, 2002: 107), elevated to family level by Azevedo et al., 2022: 11; synonym of Morebilinae (Platnick, 2002: 129) (type genus Morebilus Platnick, 2002) (Azevedo et al., 2022: 11); the family contents Australian genera formerly included in Trochanteriidae and Gallieniellidae; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 519, f. 19.

Gen. Fissarena Henschel, Davies & Dickman, 1995 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02180

N.B.: described only as a member of "the superfamily Clubionoidea"; tentatively placed in Liocranidae because of the cylindrical gland spigots and scopular hairs of females (Platnick, 1998: 697); transferred to the Trochanteriidae by Platnick, 2002: 181 and to the Trachycosmidae by Azevedo et al., 2022: 11.

Fissarena arcoona Platnick, 2002 | | Australia (South Australia) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037967

Fissarena arcoona Platnick, 2002: 192, f. 525-528 (Dmf) Original description

Fissarena barlee Platnick, 2002 | | Australia (Western Australia) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037968

Fissarena barlee Platnick, 2002: 188, f. 513-516 (Dmf) Original description

Fissarena barrow Platnick, 2002 | | Australia (Western Australia) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037969

Fissarena barrow Platnick, 2002: 185, f. 531-532 (Df) Original description

Fissarena castanea (Simon, 1908) | | Australia (Western Australia, Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026217

Rebilus castaneus Simon, 1908d: 382 (Df) Original description

Fissarena castanea Platnick, 2002: 186, f. 159, 501-504, 506-508 (Tf from Rebilus, Dm)

Fissarena cuny Platnick, 2002 | | Australia (South Australia) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037970

Fissarena cuny Platnick, 2002: 188, f. 509-510 (Dm) Original description

Fissarena ethabuka Henschel, Davies & Dickman, 1995 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:024215

Fissarena ethabuka Henschel, Davies & Dickman, 1995: 138, f. 1-19 (Df) Original description

Fissarena ethabuka Platnick, 2002: 185, f. 511-512 (f)

Fissarena laverton Platnick, 2002 | | Australia (Western Australia, South Australia) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037972

Fissarena laverton Platnick, 2002: 191, f. 521-524 (Dmf) Original description

Fissarena longipes (Hogg, 1896) | | Australia (Northern Territory) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027376

Hemicloea longipes Hogg, 1896: 343 (Dm) Original description

Fissarena longipes Platnick, 2002: 193, f. 529-530 (Tm from Hemicloea)

Fissarena woodleigh Platnick, 2002 | | Australia (Western Australia) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037973

Fissarena woodleigh Platnick, 2002: 190, f. 495-500, 517-520 (Dmf) Original description