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.

Gen. Liophrurillus Wunderlich, 1992 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02188

type Drassus flavitarsis Lucas, 1846; gender masculine

N.B.: described as a corinnid of uncertain relationships, placement confirmed by Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2002: 265, transferred from the Corinnidae to the Phrurolithidae by Ramírez, 2014: 343.

In synonymy:

Liophrurillus gracilipes (Blackwall, 1863, T from Phrurolithus) = Liophrurillus flavitarsis (Lucas, 1846) (Simon, 1878a: 273, sub Micariosoma)

Liophrurillus grandis (Denis, 1964, T from Phrurolithus) = Liophrurillus flavitarsis (Lucas, 1846) (Wunderlich, 1992a: 473)

Liophrurillus romanus (L. Koch, 1866) = Liophrurillus flavitarsis (Lucas, 1846) (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874a: 402, sub Phrurolithus gracilipes)

Liophrurillus flavitarsis (Lucas, 1846) | | Madeira, Morocco, Algeria, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Romania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:024246 TYPE SPECIES

Drassus flavitarsis Lucas, 1846: 222, pl. 14, f. 5 (Dmf) Original description

Drassus gracilipes Blackwall, 1863b: 264 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066819]

Macaria flavitarsis Simon, 1864: 113

Phrurolithus romanus Koch, 1866: 225 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066820]

Phrurolithus gracilipes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874a: 402, pl. 52, f. 17 (Dmf, S of Phrurolithus romanus)

Phrurolithus flavitarsis Thorell, 1875c: 114

Micariosoma flavitarsis Simon, 1878a: 273 (S of Phrurolithus gracilipes)

Phrurolithus flavitarsis Simon, 1932: 946, 973, f. 1461-1462 (mf)

Phrurolithus grandis Denis, 1964a: 96, f. 23 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037576]

Phrurolithus flavitarsis Sterghiu, 1985: 147, f. 43a-b (mf)

Liophrurillus flavitarsis Wunderlich, 1992a: 473, f. 732a-f (mf, T from Phrurolithus, S of Phrurolithus grandis)

Liophrurillus flavitarsis Trotta, 2005: 167, f. 312-313 (mf)

Liophrurillus flavitarsis Wunderlich, 2012a: 22, f. 26-32 (mf)