World Spider Catalog

Phrurolithidae Banks, 1892

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: elevated to family status and relimited by Ramírez, 2014: 342; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 521, f. 19.

In synonymy:

Zoroides Berland, 1924 = Dorymetaecus Rainbow, 1920 (Raven, Hebron & Williams, 2023: 10)

Gen. Dorymetaecus Rainbow, 1920 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02217

N.B.: transferred from the Clubionidae to the Phrurolithidae by Ramírez, 2014: 343; considered a senior synonym of Zoroides Berland, 1924a: 235 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02512] (type Z. dalmasi Berland, 1924, transferred from the Ctenidae to the Zoridae [= Miturgidae] by Lehtinen, 1967: 276) by Raven, Hebron & Williams, 2023: 10 (transferred from the Miturgidae to the Phrurolithidae).

Dorymetaecus dalmasi (Berland, 1924) | | New Caledonia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028563

Zoroides dalmasi Berland, 1924a: 235, f. 168-173 (Df) Original description

Dorymetaecus dalmasi Raven, Hebron & Williams, 2023: 10 (T from Zoroides in Miturgidae)

Dorymetaecus spinnipes Rainbow, 1920 | | Australia (Lord Howe Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:024839

Dorymetaecus spinnipes Rainbow, 1920b: 259, pl. 30, f. 83-87 (Df) Original description