World Spider Catalog

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Lyssomanidae Blackwall, 1877 by Galiano, 1976b: 67; for illustrations of scale morphology of about 60 species, see Hill, 1979; for the phylogeny within the family see Maddison & Hedin, 2003b, Maddison, 2015, Maddison et al., 2017, Prószyński, 2017b and Zhang et al., 2024f; the subfamilies Asemoneinae Maddison, 2015, Eupoinae Maddison, 2015, Hisponinae Simon 1901, Lyssomaninae, Onomastinae Maddison, 2015, Salticinae and Spartaeinae Wanless, 1984 are confirmed by Zhang et al., 2024f: 347.

Gen. Colopsus Simon, 1902 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04719

type Colopsus cancellatus Simon, 1902; gender masculine

N.B.: considered a synonym of Evarcha Simon, 1902 by Prószyński, 1984a: 51, revalidated by Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021: 2771; considered a senior synponym of Cheliceroides Żabka, 1985 by Logunov, 2021e: 1022 and revalidated by Lin, Yang & Zhang, 2024: 248; Colopsus does not include the type species of Evacin Prószyński, 2018b (type Evarcha kochi Simon, 1902) and thus Evacin is not a synonym of Colopsus (contra Blick & Marusik, 2018: 237).

Transferred to other genera:

Colopsus arkavathi Caleb, 2022 -- see Tenkana

Colopsus cinereus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 -- see Tenkana

Colopsus longipalpis (Żabka, 1985) -- see Cheliceroides

Colopsus manu (Caleb, Christudhas, Laltanpuii & Chitra, 2014) -- see Tenkana

Colopsus cancellatus Simon, 1902 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033386 TYPE SPECIES

Colopsus cancellatus Simon, 1902a: 409 (Dmf) Original description

Colopsus cancellatus Simon, 1903a: 738, f. 851 (m)

Evarcha cancellata Prószyński, 1984a: 51 (mf)

Evarcha cf. cancellata Prószyński, 2009b: 160, f. 34 (f; presumably misidentified per Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021: 2779)

Evacin cancellata Prószyński, 2018b: 142, f. 3J, 6G (mf)

Colopsus cancellatus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021: 2776, f. 3a-h, 4a-f, 5a-e, 6a-b, 7a, d (mf, T from Evarcha)

Colopsus cancellatus Lin, Yang & Zhang, 2024: 250, f. 19-21 (mf)

Colopsus ferruginus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053066

Colopsus ferruginus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021: 2782, f. 5f-j, 6c-d, 7b, e, 10a-l, 11a-f (Dmf) Original description

Colopsus magnus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053067

Colopsus magnus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021: 2786, f. 12a-d, 13a-e, 14a-e, 15a-d (Dmf) Original description

Colopsus peppara Sudhin, Sen & Caleb, 2023 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059269

Colopsus peppara Sudhin, Sen & Caleb, 2023c: 286, f. 1A-F, 2A-D (Dmf) Original description

Colopsus tenuesi Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053068

Colopsus tenuesi Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021: 2792, f. 7c, f, 16a-f (Dm) Original description