World Spider Catalog

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. Kryptochroma Machado, 2021 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04758

type Stephanopis pentacantha Mello-Leitão, 1929; gender feminine

In synonymy:

Kryptochroma acanthogastra (Mello-Leitão, 1929, T from Stephanopis) = Kryptochroma quinquetuberculata (Taczanowski, 1872) (Machado et al., 2021: 51)

Kryptochroma bella (Soares & Soares, 1946, T from Stephanopis) = Kryptochroma pentacantha (Mello-Leitão, 1929) (Machado et al., 2021: 44)

Kryptochroma colatinae (B. A. M. Soares & H. E. M. Soares, 1946, T from Stephanopis) = Kryptochroma pentacantha (Mello-Leitão, 1929) (Machado et al., 2021: 44)

Kryptochroma gigas Machado & Viecelli, 2021 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053553

Kryptochroma gigas Machado & Viecelli in Machado et al., 2021: 32, f. 3A-F, 21A (Df) Original description

Kryptochroma hilaris Machado & Teixeira, 2021 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053554

Kryptochroma hilaris Machado & Teixeira in Machado et al., 2021: 34, f. 4A-F, 5A-F, 20B, 21B (Dmf) Original description

Kryptochroma macrostyla (Mello-Leitão, 1929) | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031146

Stephanopis macrostyla Mello-Leitão, 1929d: 61, f. 145 (Dm) Original description

Kryptochroma macrostyla Machado et al., 2021: 37, f. 6A-F, 20C (m, T from Stephanopis)

Kryptochroma parahybana (Mello-Leitão, 1929) | | French Guiana, Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031158

Stephanopis parahybana Mello-Leitão, 1929d: 58, f. 140 (Df) Original description

Stephanopis salobrensis Mello-Leitão, 1929d: 57, f. 137 (f; m is Epicadus stelloides per Machado et al., 2021: 39, 66)

Kryptochroma parahybana Machado et al., 2021: 39, f. 7A-F, 8A-F, 20D, 21C (Dm, f, T from Stephanopis)

Kryptochroma pentacantha (Mello-Leitão, 1929) | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031160 TYPE SPECIES

Stephanopis pentacantha Mello-Leitão, 1929d: 59 (Dmf) Original description

Stephanopis bellus Soares & Soares, 1946: 58, f. 7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031122]

Stephanopis colatinae Soares & Soares, 1946: 60, f. 8-9 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031130]

Stephanopis pentacantha Machado & Teixeira, 2021: 298, f. 8c, 11d, 13a, g, 14h, 15b, 19b (m)

Kryptochroma pentacantha Machado et al., 2021: 44, f. 1A-F, 10A-F, 11A-F, 19A, 22A (mf, T from Stephanopis, S of Stephanopis bella and S. colatinae)

Kryptochroma quadrata Machado & Viecelli, 2021 | | Colombia, Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053555

Kryptochroma quadrata Machado & Viecelli in Machado et al., 2021: 48, f. 12A-F, 13A-F, 19B, 22B (Dmf) Original description

Kryptochroma quadrata Luna-Sarmiento & Sabogal-González, 2023: 140, f. 5C-D (m)

Kryptochroma quinquetuberculata (Taczanowski, 1872) | | Colombia, French Guiana, Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031162

Thomisus quinquetuberculatus Taczanowski, 1872: 100 (Dm) Original description

Stephanopis quinquetuberculata Keyserling, 1880: 171, pl. 3, f. 94 (m)

Tobias quinquetuberculatus Simon, 1895a: 1053

Stephanopis acanthogastra Mello-Leitão, 1929d: 53, f. 135 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031112]

Stephanopis quinquetuberculata Mello-Leitão, 1929d: 62

Stephanopis quinquetuberculata Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2017: 454, f. S4D, S5B, S7E, S10C, S11D, S13E, S14D (m, Df)

Kryptochroma quinquetuberculata Machado et al., 2021: 51, f. 14A-H, 19C (m, T from Stephanopis, S of Stephanopis acanthogastra)

Kryptochroma renipalpis (Mello-Leitão, 1929) | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031163

Stephanopis renipalpis Mello-Leitão, 1929d: 60, f. 143-144 (Dm) Original description

Kryptochroma renipalpis Machado et al., 2021: 53, f. 15A-F, 19D (m, T from Stephanopis)

Kryptochroma septata Machado & Teixeira, 2021 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053556

Kryptochroma septata Machado & Teixeira in Machado et al., 2021: 55, f. F, 17A-F, 20A, 22C (Dmf) Original description