Thomisidae Sundevall, 1833

Family |   ACCEPTED
N.B.: Includes Aphantochilidae as "a subfamily related to the Strophiinae" (Ono, 1988c: 217-218, after Homann, 1975: 184; see also Benjamin, 2011: 8 and Teixeira, Campos & Lise, 2014: 73). Separation of Borboropactidae Wunderlich, 2004 (Wunderlich, 2004m: 1738, Murphy & Roberts, 2015: viii) not sufficiently justified and is not accepted here. Lehtinen, 2016 splits the family into five families, i.e. Thomisidae s. str., Borboropactidae Wunderlich, 2004, Stephanopidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871, Stiphropidae Simon, 1886 [sub Stiphropodidae; for nomenclatural author and year see Simon, 1886b: 170] and Bomidae Simon, 1886 [for nomenclatural author and year see Simon, 1886b: 173]; because of lack of a phylogenetic analysis and partly unclear limitations this splitting is not accepted; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 518, f. 17-18.
Gen. Paratobias F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04727
type Paratobias championi F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900; gender masculine
N.B.: synonymized with Stephanopis by Simon, 1903a: 1017, revalidated by Machado & Teixeira, 2021: 297.
Paratobias championi F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 | | Mexico, Honduras, Panama urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031127 TYPE SPECIES
Paratobias championi F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 162, pl. 11, f. 2 (Df) Original description
Stephanopis championi Simon, 1903a: 1017
Paratobias championi Machado & Teixeira, 2021: 297, f. 13b, 18c (f, T from Stephanopis)
Paratobias championi Machado, Guzati & Teixeira, 2025: 387, f. 1B-D, 4A-F, 5A-F (Dmf)
Paratobias invictus Machado, 2025 | | Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065985
Paratobias invictus Machado in Machado, Guzati & Teixeira, 2025: 383, f. 1A, 2A-F, 3A-F (Dmf) Original description

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