World Spider Catalog

Mimetidae Simon, 1881

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: the older name Ctenophoridae Blackwall, 1870a: 401 is not available, as Ctenophora Blackwall, 1870 is preoccupied in Diptera by Meigen, 1803; see also the notes under Heterognatha and Testudinaria (Araneidae); Oarcinae (Gnolus and Oarces) transferred from the Mimitidae to the Araneidae by Dimitrov et al., 2012: Suppl. 1, p. 15; re-transfer to the Mimetidae by Eskov & Marusik, 2023: 340 not accepted here (by majority vote of the WSC boards).

Gen. Anansi Benavides & Hormiga, 2017 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04410

Anansi insidiator (Thorell, 1899) | | Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005757

Mimetus insidiator Thorell, 1899: 29 (Df) Original description

Mimetus insidiator Simon, 1903e: 92 (Dm)

Mimetus insidiator Lessert, 1930: 622, f. 6a-b (f)

Anansi insidiator Benavides, Giribet & Hormiga, 2017: 401, f. 1A, 14A-J, 15A-K, 16A-D, 17A-H, 18A-B (mf, T from Mimetus)

Anansi insidiator Benavides & Hormiga, 2020: 145, f. 1A, 4E, 7E, 8F, 10C, 11G, 12F, 13H, 18D (mf)

Anansi luki Benavides & Hormiga, 2017 | | DR Congo, Gabon urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049460

Anansi luki Benavides & Hormiga in Benavides, Giribet & Hormiga, 2017: 400, f. 9A-G, 10A-G, 11A-B, 12A-F, 13A-G (Dmf) Original description

Anansi luki Benavides & Hormiga, 2020: 161, f. 15D-E (m)

Anansi natalensis (Lawrence, 1938) | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005768

Mimetus natalensis Lawrence, 1938a: 483, f. 17 (Dmf) Original description

Mimetus natalensis Unzicker, 1966: 511, f. 1-2, 8-9 (mf)

Anansi natalensis Benavides, Giribet & Hormiga, 2017: 399 (T from Mimetus)

Anansi natalensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021o: 6, p. 5: 3 f., p. 6: 6 f. (mf)