World Spider Catalog

Family | ACCEPTED

Gen. Hickmania Gertsch, 1958 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00300

type Theridion troglodytes Higgins & Petterd, 1883; gender feminine

N.B.: transferred from the Hypochilidae to the Hickmaniidae by Lehtinen, 1967: 299, to the Austrochilidae by Forster, Platnick & Gray, 1987: 48 and to the Gradungulidae by Kulkarni & Hormiga, 2021: 855; synonymy with Thaida (Murphy & Roberts, 2015: viii) not sufficiently justified and is also rejected by Kulkarni & Hormiga, 2021: 855.

Hickmania troglodytes (Higgins & Petterd, 1883) | | Australia (Tasmania) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002532 TYPE SPECIES

Theridion troglodytes Higgins & Petterd, 1883: 191 (D) Original description

Ectatosticta australis Simon, 1902c: 240 (Dj)

Ectatostica troglodytes Rainbow, 1904c: 327, pl. 46, f. 1-4 (Df, T from Theridion, S of Ectatosticta australis)

Ectatosticta troglodytes Hickman, 1928: 169, pl. 24, f. 6-7 (Dm)

Hickmania troglodytes Gertsch, 1958c: 16, f. 20, 32-40, 44 (Tmf from Ectatosticta)

Hickmania troglodytes Lehtinen, 1967: 431, f. 16 (m)

Hickmania troglodytes Forster & Gray, 1979: 1061, f. 20, 32

Hickmania troglodytes Forster, Platnick & Gray, 1987: 49, f. 327, 341-346, 355, 362, 371, 376, 380 (mf)