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. Malizna Wesołowska, 2021 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04754

type Malizna admirabilis Wesołowska, 2021; gender feminine

Malizna admirabilis Wesołowska, 2021 | | Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053528 TYPE SPECIES

Malizna admirabilis Wesołowska, 2021: 1003, f. 45-67 (Dmf) Original description

Malizna guineensis Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025 | | Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066114

Malizna guineensis Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 860, f. 38A-G (Df) Original description

Malizna levis Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026 | | Central African Rep. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066642

Malizna levis Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026: 23, f. 18A-E (Df) Original description

Malizna simplex Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025 | | Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066115

Pochyta spinosa Prószyński, 1987: 79 (f; misidentified per Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 851)

Malizna simplex Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 851, f. 39A-F, 40A-D, 41A-D (Dmf) Original description

Malizna zabkai Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 | | Ivory Coast urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056030

Malizna zabkai Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 53, f. 33A-E (Df) Original description