World Spider Catalog

Liphistiidae Thorell, 1869

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: this spelling (not Lipistiidae) on the Official List of Family and Generic Names in Zoology; considered a senior synonym of Heptathelidae Kishida, 1923: 242 by Raven, 1985a: 16, confirmed by Breitling, 2022a: 3 and Sivayyapram et al., 2024b: 254 (by majority vote of the WSC boards), rejecting Petrunkevitch, 1939a: 149, Haupt, 1983: 289, Li, 2022: 72 and Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 485, f. 5; Kishida, 1923: 242 erected the subfamily Anadiasthothelinae, which became a synonym of Liphistiidae by the synonymy of the type genus Anadiastothele Simon, 1903 with Liphistius Schiødte, 1849 by Bristowe, 1933a: 1030 (by transfer of the type species).

Nomina dubia

Sinothela Haupt, 2003, type Heptathela sinensis Bishop & Crosby, 1932 -- Xu et al., 2022: 152

Gen. Sinothela Haupt, 2003 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04255

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Heptathela Kishida, 1923 by Xu et al., 2015: 137, contra Schwendinger & Ono, 2011: 601; placed as a junior S of Songthela in an earlier version of the catalog; nomen dubium by Xu et al., 2022: 152, but no information given where the male could belong to.

Transferred to other genera:

Sinothela heyangensis (Zhu & Wang, 1984) -- see Luthela

Sinothela luotianensis (Yin, Tang, Zhao & Chen, 2002) -- see Luthela

Sinothela schensiensis (Schenkel, 1953) -- see Luthela

Sinothela xianensis (Zhu & Wang, 1983) -- see Luthela

Nomen dubium:

Sinothela sinensis (Bishop & Crosby, 1932: 5, f. 1-7, f, China, originally in Heptathela) -- Xu et al., 2022: 152, no information given where the male could belong to