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. Philira Edwards, 2015 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04296

type Diagondas micans Simon, 1902; gender feminine

In synonymy:

Philira gratiosa Soares & Camargo, 1948 = Philira micans (Simon, 1902) (Galiano, 1965a: 132)

Philira penicillata (Mello-Leitão, 1946, T from Ilargus) = Philira micans (Simon, 1902) (Galiano, 1965a: 132)

Philira micans (Simon, 1902) | | Brazil, Paraguay urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032728 TYPE SPECIES

Diagondas micans Simon, 1902a: 397 (Df) Original description

Ilargus penicillatus Mello-Leitão, 1946b: 24, f. 6 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057445]

Chira gratiosa Soares & Camargo, 1948b: 425, f. 6-8 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057444]

Chira gratiosa Galiano, 1961b: 166, pl. II, f. 6-9 (m)

Chira micans Galiano, 1965a: 132, f. 5 (f, T from Diagondas, S of Chira gratiosa and Ilargus penicillatus)

Philira micans Edwards, 2015: 58, f. 25A-K (mf, T from Chira)

Philira superba (Caporiacco, 1947) | | Guyana urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032732

Chira superba Caporiacco, 1947a: 32 (Df) Original description

Chira superba Caporiacco, 1948a: 713, f. 142-143 (f)

Philira superba Edwards, 2015: 58 (T from Chira)

Philira toroi Rubio, Baigorria & Stolar, 2023 | | Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057441

Philira toroi Rubio, Baigorria & Stolar, 2023: 18, f. 73-88 (Dmf) Original description