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. Protaeus Ni, Yu & Zhang, 2025 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06373

type Protaeus nyarlathotep Ni, Yu & Zhang, 2025; gender masculine

Protaeus dracosquamus Ni, Yu & Zhang, 2025 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065958

Protaeus dracosquamus Ni, Yu & Zhang, 2025b: 16, f. 5a-h (Dm) Original description

Protaeus forcipiformis (Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049520

Spartaeus forcipiformis Yang et al., 2017: 380, f. 1A-C, 2A-B (Dm) Original description

Protaeus forcipiformis Ni, Yu & Zhang, 2025b: 23 (T from Spartaeus)

Protaeus gulliwingus Ni, Yu & Zhang, 2025 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065959

Protaeus gulliwingus Ni, Yu & Zhang, 2025b: 18, f. 6a-f, 7a-e, 8a-d (Dmf) Original description

Protaeus jianfeng (Song & Zhu, 1998) | | China (Hainan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035715

Portia jianfeng Song & Zhu, 1998b: 26, f. 1-3 (Dm) Original description

Portia jianfeng Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 541, f. 311K-L (m)

Portia jianfeng Peng & Li, 2002f: 257, f. 1A-D (m)

Portia jianfeng Peng, 2020: 347, f. 248a-d (m)

Protaeus jianfeng Ni, Yu & Zhang, 2025b: 21, f. 9a-f, 10a-e, 11a-d (m, Df, T from Portia)

Protaeus nyarlathotep Ni, Yu & Zhang, 2025 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065957 TYPE SPECIES

Protaeus nyarlathotep Ni, Yu & Zhang, 2025b: 13, f. 2a-f, 3a-f, 4a-d (Dmf) Original description

Protaeus shiwandashan (Wang, Mi, Li & Xu, 2024) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063377

Mintonia shiwandashan Wang et al., 2024n: 221, f. 11A-G (Dm) Original description

Protaeus shiwandashan Ni, Yu & Zhang, 2025b: 23 (T from Mintonia)