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

Sinothela sinensis (Bishop & Crosby, 1932) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000023

Heptathela sinensis Bishop & Crosby, 1932: 5, f. 1-7 (Df) Original description

Heptathela sinensis Bristowe, 1933a: 1055, f. 12

Heptathela sinensis Wen & Zhu, 1980: 39, f. 1.1-9 (f, Dm)

Heptathela sinensis Haupt, 1983: 285, f. 9c (f)

Heptathela sinensis Hu, 1984: 26, f. 24-26 (mf)

Heptathela sinensis Song & Haupt, 1984: 445, f. 1a-b, 2a, 3a (m)

Heptathela sinensis Zhu & Shi, 1985: 48, f. 39a-g (mf)

Heptathela sinensis Zhang, 1987: 44, f. 30.1-5 (mf)

Heptathela sinensis Zhao, 1993: 53, f. 19a-c (mf)

Heptathela sinensis Zhao, 1995: 773, f. 355a-c (mf)

Heptathela sinensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 33, f. 15F, N-O (mf)

Abcathela sinensis Ono, 2000: 150 (T from Heptathela; N.B.: genus not accepted by Platnick in his online catalogs)

Heptathela sinensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 46, f. 17A-E (mf)

Sinothela sinensis Haupt, 2003: 71, f. 62F (m)

Songthela sinensis Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 30, f. 10A-D (mf)

Sinothela sinensis Xu et al., 2015a: 139 (T from Heptathela, mf f. 35-39 see Luthela yiyuan)

Sinothela sinensis Xu et al., 2022: 152 (nomen dubium [f], but no information given where the male could belong to)