World Spider Catalog

Corinnidae Karsch, 1880

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: considered valid by Wunderlich, 1986: 28, so genera listed by Brignoli, 1983c under Castianeirinae Reiskind, 1969: 179 and Corinninae (within the Clubionidae s. lat.) are treated here; Wunderlich used the name Myrmeciidae, which is already in use for ants (see Reiskind, 1983); Reiskind proposed that the International Commission validate the spelling Myrmeciuminae, but as there are already names available and in common use for both Corinninae and Castianeirinae it is easier to simply suppress Myrmeciinae C. L. Koch, 1850; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 522, f. 20.

In synonymy:

Peng Lu & Li, 2023 = Myrmecisca Thorell, 1897 (Ono et al., 2026: 46)

Gen. Myrmecisca Thorell, 1897 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06002

type Myrmecisca birmanica Thorell, 1897; gender feminine

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Sphecotypus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 (rejecting Thorell, 1897a: 240) and considered a senior synonym of Peng Lu & Li, in Lu et al., 2023b: 31 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06004] (type Myrmecisca birmanica Thorell, 1897) by Ono et al., 2026: 46.

Myrmecisca birmanica Thorell, 1897 | | Myanmar, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025439 TYPE SPECIES

Myrmecisca birmanica Thorell, 1897a: 240 (Df) Original description

Sphecotypus birmanicus Simon, 1897a: 171

Sphecotypus birmanicus Yamasaki et al., 2017: 22, f. 1-5, 7-8 (f)

Sphecotypus birmanicus Yamasaki & Rollard, 2022: 49, f. 2B, E (f habitus)

Peng birmanicus Lu et al., 2023b: 34, f. 9A-F, 10A-B, 11A-J (Dm, f, T from Sphecotypus)

Myrmecisca birmanica Ono et al., 2026: 46 (T from Peng)

Myrmecisca borneensis (Yamasaki, 2017) | | Malaysia (Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050241

Sphecotypus cf. birmanicus Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001: 331, f. 489-495 (mf; misidentified per Yamasaki et al., 2017: 26)

Sphecotypus borneensis Yamasaki in Yamasaki et al., 2017: 26, f. 9-28 (Dmf) Original description

Sphecotypus borneensis Yamasaki & Rollard, 2022: 49, f. 2C, F (f habitus)

Peng borneensis Lu et al., 2023b: 31 (T from Sphecotypus)

Myrmecisca borneensis Ono et al., 2026: 46 (T from Peng, by S of the genus)

Myrmecisca taprobanica (Simon, 1897) | j | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025441

Sphecotypus taprobanicus Simon, 1897a: 170 (Df) Original description

Sphecotypus taprobanicus Yamasaki & Rollard, 2022: 49, f. 1A-D, 2A, D (jf habitus)

Peng taprobanicus Lu et al., 2023b: 31 (T from Sphecotypus)

Myrmecisca taprobanica Ono et al., 2026: 46 (T from Peng, by S of the genus)