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.

Gen. Sphecotypus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02266

type Sphecotypus formicarius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895; gender masculine; syn. of Sphecotypus niger (Perty, 1833)

N.B.: not a senior synonym of Myrmecisca Thorell, 1897 (Ono et al., 2026: 46, rejecting Simon, 1897a: 176).

Transferred to other genera:

Sphecotypus birmanicus (Thorell, 1897) -- see Myrmecisca

Sphecotypus borneensis Yamasaki, 2017 -- see Myrmecisca

Sphecotypus taprobanicus Simon, 1897 -- see Myrmecisca

In synonymy:

Sphecotypus formicarius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 = Sphecotypus niger (Perty, 1833) (Simon, 1897a: 176)

Sphecotypus niger (Perty, 1833) | | Nicaragua to Brazil, Bolivia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025440 TYPE SPECIES

Myrmecia nigra Perty, 1833: 199, pl. 39, f. 9 (Df) Original description

Myrmecia nigra C. L. Koch, 1841b: 15, f. 701 (f)

Myrmecia nigra Keyserling, 1891: 80, pl. 2, f. 40 (f)

Sphecotypus formicarius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895a: 153, pl. 19, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06002]

Sphecotypus niger Simon, 1897a: 176, f. 168-169, 171 (f, T from Myrmecia, S of Sphecotypus formicarius)

Sphecotypus niger Leister & Miller, 2014a: 147, f. 1A-I (Dm, f)