World Spider Catalog

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. Metatrachelas Bosselaers & Bosmans, 2010 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03976

type Trachelas rayi Simon, 1878; gender masculine

N.B.: transferred from the Corinnidae to the Trachelidae by Ramírez, 2014: 342.

In synonymy:

Metatrachelas purus (Kritscher, 1969, T from Trachelas) = Metatrachelas rayi (Simon, 1878) (Bosselaers et al., 2009: 24, sub Trachelas)

Metatrachelas amabilis (Simon, 1878) | | Algeria, Tunisia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025483

Trachelas amabilis Simon, 1878d: 50, 63 (Df) Original description

Trachelas amabilis Bosselaers et al., 2009: 28, f. 34-37 (f)

Metatrachelas amabilis Bosselaers & Bosmans, 2010: 49 (Tf from Trachelas)

Metatrachelas macrochelis (Wunderlich, 1992) | | Azores, Canary Is., Spain, Algeria urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025519

Trachelas macrochelis Wunderlich, 1992a: 474, f. 733-739 (Dmf) Original description

Trachelas macrochelis Bosselaers et al., 2009: 26, f. 28-33 (mf)

Metatrachelas macrochelis Bosselaers & Bosmans, 2010: 49 (Tmf from Trachelas)

Metatrachelas macrochelis Wunderlich, 2012a: 20, f. 5-10 (mf)

Metatrachelas rayi (Simon, 1878) | | Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Albania, Bulgaria, Algeria urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025540 TYPE SPECIES

Trachelas rayi Simon, 1878a: 284, pl. 16, f. 1 (Dmf) Original description

Trachelas rayi Simon, 1932: 959, f. 1500-1501 (mf)

Trachelas purus Kritscher, 1969: 306, f. 11 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025536]

Trachelas rayi Wunderlich, 1992a: 475, f. 740 (m)

Trachelas rayi Bosselaers et al., 2009: 24, f. 8, 22-27 (mf, S of Trachelas purus)

Metatrachelas rayi Bosselaers & Bosmans, 2010: 47, f. 3A-C (f)