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).

Gen. Qiongthela Xu & Kuntner, 2015 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04254

N.B.: transferred from the Liphistiidae to the Heptathelidae by Li, 2022: 72.

Qiongthela australis (Ono, 2002) | | Vietnam urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037418

Songthela australis Ono, 2002c: 120, f. 1-8 (Df) Original description

Heptathela australis Schwendinger & Ono, 2011: 602, f. 1-20, 55-58, 67 (f, Dm)

Qiongthela australis Xu et al., 2015a: 133 (T from Heptathela)

Qiongthela baishensis Xu, 2015 | | China (Hainan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047607

Qiongthela baishensis Xu in Xu et al., 2015a: 135, f. 4, 22-27 (Dmf) Original description

Qiongthela baoting Yu, Liu, Zhang, Wang, Li & Xu, 2020 | | China (Hainan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051658

Qiongthela baoting Yu et al., 2020: 54, f. 1A-B, 2A-H (Dmf) Original description

Qiongthela bawang Xu, Liu, Kuntner & Li, 2017 | | China (Hainan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049704

Qiongthela bawang Xu et al., 2017d: 3, f. 1B-H (Df) Original description

Qiongthela dongfang Yu, Liu, Zhang, Li & Xu, 2021 | | China (Hainan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052733

Qiongthela dongfang Yu et al., 2021a: 126, f. 2D-E, 3A-K (Dmf) Original description

Qiongthela jianfeng Xu, Liu, Kuntner & Li, 2017 | | China (Hainan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049705

Qiongthela jianfeng Xu et al., 2017d: 5, f. 2B-O (Dmf) Original description

Qiongthela nankai Yu, Liu, Zhang, Li & Xu, 2021 | | China (Hainan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052734

Qiongthela nankai Yu et al., 2021a: 130, f. 4D-E, 5A-K (Dmf) Original description

Qiongthela nui (Schwendinger & Ono, 2011) | | Vietnam urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044561

Heptathela nui Schwendinger & Ono, 2011: 607, f. 21-33, 68 (Dmf) Original description

Qiongthela nui Xu et al., 2015a: 133 (T from Heptathela)

Qiongthela qiongzhong Yu, Liu, Zhang, Wang, Li & Xu, 2020 | | China (Hainan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051659

Qiongthela qiongzhong Yu et al., 2020: 57, f. 3A-M (Dmf) Original description

Qiongthela sanya Yu, Liu, Zhang, Wang, Li & Xu, 2020 | | China (Hainan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051660

Qiongthela sanya Yu et al., 2020: 59, f. 4A-G, 5A-H (Dmf) Original description

Qiongthela wuzhi Xu, Liu, Kuntner & Li, 2017 | | China (Hainan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049707

Qiongthela wuzhi Xu et al., 2017d: 8, f. 4B-J (Dmf) Original description

Qiongthela yalin Yu, Liu, Zhang, Li & Xu, 2021 | | China (Hainan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052735

Qiongthela yalin Yu et al., 2021a: 133, f. 6D-E, 7A-M (Dmf) Original description

Qiongthela yinae Xu, Liu, Kuntner & Li, 2017 | | China (Hainan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049706

Qiongthela yini Xu et al., 2017d: 7, f. 3A-C (Df; N.B.: patronym for Yin Chang-Min, 'lapsus calami' per ICZN Article 32.5.1., see FAQ 6) Original description

Qiongthela yinggezui Yu, Liu, Zhang, Wang, Li & Xu, 2020 | | China (Hainan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051661

Qiongthela yinggezui Yu et al., 2020: 63, f. 6A-H (Dmf) Original description