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. Tarkas Edwards, 2015 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04297

type Cyrene maculatipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901; gender masculine

In synonymy:

Tarkas mediocavus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) = Tarkas maculatipes (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) (Edwards, 2015: 63)

Tarkas maculatipes (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) | | Mexico, Guatemala urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033481 TYPE SPECIES

Cyrene maculatipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 234, pl. 19, f. 12 (Dm) Original description

Cyrene mediocava F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 236, pl. 20, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035407]

Freya maculatipes Simon, 1903a: 730

Phiale mediocava Petrunkevitch, 1911: 692

Freya maculatipes Galiano, 2001: 34, f. 14-16 (m)

Tarkas maculatipes Edwards, 2015: 63, f. 28A-E, G-O (Tm from Freya, Sf)