World Spider Catalog

Desidae Pocock, 1895

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: revalidated by Roth, 1967b: 4 (for Desis only) but greatly expanded subsequently; for a diagnosis, see Forster, 1970b: 21; considered a senior synonym of Toxopidae by Forster, 1970b: 110, whose concept differs greatly from that of Lehtinen, 1967, who considered the Desinae a subfamily of the Amaurobiidae separate from the Matachiinae Dalmas, 1917 (most genera of which Forster, 1970b: 13 attributed to the Desidae/Desinae, see also Forster & Wilton, 1973: 296 and Brignoli, 1983c: 487); all genera placed by these authors either in the Desidae, or in the Desinae and Matachiinae, respectively, are listed here; transfers of Gasparia, Goyenia, Lamina and Mangareia to Cicurinidae, of Hapona and Laestrygones to Cycloctenidae (Murphy & Roberts, 2015: viii), of Forstertyna to Megadictynidae, and separation of Matachiidae (new rank) containing the most genera of Desidae (Murphy & Roberts, 2015: ix) not sufficiently justified and are not accepted here; separation of Cambridgeidae fam. n. (from Stiphidiidae, a synomyn of Porteriinae) (Murphy & Roberts, 2015: viii) not sufficiently justified and is not accepted here; redefinition of Desidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 606 to include six subfamilies: Amphinectinae (transferred from Amphinectidae Forster & Wilton, 1973 syn. nov. [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0065], Amphinecta, Mamoea, Maniho, Paramamoea and Rangitata), Ischaleinae Davies, 1990 (Bakala, Manjala - both transferred from Amaurobiidae, and Ischalea, transferred from Stiphidiidae), Metaltellinae Lehtinen, 1967 (new rank, Austmusia, Buyina, Calacadia, Cunnawarra, Jalkaraburra, Keera, Magua, Metaltella, Penaoola and Quemusia), Porteriinae Lehtinen, 1967: 326 (new rank, transferred from Stiphidiidae, Baiami, Cambridgea, Corasoides, Nanocambridgea and Porteria), Matachiinae Lehtinen, 1967 (sensu Lehtinen, 1967: 233, 242, 324: Badumna, Cicirra, Epimecinus, Forsterina, Lathyarcha, Matachia, Namandia, Paramatachia, Phryganoporus - other genera are not explicitly attributed to this subfamily) and Desinae (Desis, Poaka - transferred from Amaurobiidae, and Barahna - transferred from Stiphidiidae, not all included genera are listed). Eleven genera (Akatorea, Dunstanoides, Holomamoea, Huara, Makora, Neororea, Oparara, Reinga, Rorea, Tanganoides, Waterea) not included by Wheeler et al., 2017, but also transferred from Amphinectidae to Desidae, caused by the synonmy of Amphinecidae with Desidae. Separation of Toxopidae (genera Gasparia, Gohia, Hapona, Hulua, Laestrygones, Lamina, Myro, Neomyro, Ommatauxesis, Otagoa and Toxops) also by Wheeler et al., 2017: 609-610; the new subfamily Cedicinae Marusik, Zonstein & Koponen, 2023: 102 (includes Cedicus, Cedicoides and Paracedicus) is transferred from the Cybaeidae to the Desidae by its authors; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 515.

In synonymy:

Dandridgea White, 1849 = Desis Walckenaer, 1837 (Pocock, 1895b: 143, by S of the type species)

Paradesis Pocock, 1898 = Desis Walckenaer, 1837 (Pocock, 1902c: 98)

Robsonia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880 = Desis Walckenaer, 1837 (Pocock, 1895b: 143)

Gen. Desis Walckenaer, 1837 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01859

N.B.: formerly placed in the Cybaeidae or in the Argyronetidae and transferred to the Desidae by Roth, 1967b: 5 and Lehtinen, 1967: 228; considered a senior synonym of Dandridgea White, 1849: 5[urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05761] (type D. dysderoides White, 1849 (preoccupied in Desis) = Desis marina (Hector, 1878)), of Robsonia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880a: 686 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05651] (type Argyroneta marina Hector, 1878) by Pocock, 1895b: 143, and of Paradesis Pocock, 1898f: 75 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05652] (type P. tubicola Pocock, 1898 = Desis formidabilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891)) by Pocock, 1902c: 98.

In synonymy:

Desis beckeri Hewitt, 1913 = Desis formidabilis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891 (Lamoral, 1968: 148)

Desis dysderoides (White, 1849, sub Dandridgea, preoccupied in Desis) = Desis marina Hector, 1878 (Pocock, 1895b: 143)

Desis dysderoides Walckenaer, 1837 = Desis maxillosa Fabricius, 1793 (Schiødte, 1849a: 21)

Desis isolata Banks, 1931 = Desis galapagoensis Hirst, 1925 (Roth, 1967b: 5)

Desis pentheri Simon, 1910 = Desis formidabilis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891 (Lamoral, 1968: 148)

Desis robsoni Powell, 1879 = Desis marina Hector, 1878 (Pocock, 1895b: 143)

Desis tubicola (Pocock, 1898) = Desis formidabilis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891 (Lehtinen, 1967: 256, after Hirst, 1925b: 271)

Nomen dubium:

Desis hartmeyeri Simon, 1909d: 180 (j, Australia/Western Australia) -- Baehr, Raven & Harms, 2017: 116

Nomina nuda:

Desis lyukiana Kishida, 1959: 372 (Japan/Okinawa) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054934] -- Brignoli, 1983c: 487

Desis sakaguchii Kishida, 1959: 372 (Japan/Okinawa) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054935] -- Brignoli, 1983c: 487

Desis bobmarleyi Baehr, Raven & Harms, 2017 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049836

Desis bobmarleyi Baehr, Raven & Harms, 2017: 112, f. 1, 2D, 3A-F, 4A-F, 7A-D (Dmf) Original description

Desis crosslandi Pocock, 1903 | | Tanzania (Zanzibar), Madagascar, Comoros, Mayotte urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021480

Desis crosslandi Pocock, 1903a: 390, f. 78 (Df) Original description

Desis crosslandi Strand, 1908a: 141 (Dm)

Desis crosslandi Legendre, 1969: 43, f. 1-3 (m)

Desis crosslandi Murphy & Roberts, 2015: 539, f. 35 (mf)

Desis formidabilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891) | | Namibia, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021481

Robsonia formidabilis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891b: 625, pl. 53, f. 5 (Dmf) Original description

Desis formidabilis Simon, 1897l: 221

Paradesis tubicola Pocock, 1898f: 75, f. 1-3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055387]

Paradesis formidabilis Pocock, 1898f: 77

Desis tubicola Pocock, 1902c: 104

Desis pentheri Simon, 1910b: 205 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055386]

Desis beckeri Hewitt, 1913c: 476, f. 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055384]

Desis formidabilis Lehtinen, 1967: 256 (S of Desis tubicola)

Desis formidabilis Lamoral, 1968: 148, f. 3-5 (mf, S of Desis beckeri and D. isolata)

Desis formidabilis Griswold et al., 2005: 19, f. 177A-E, 190A-B (m)

Desis formidabilis Ramírez, 2014: 211, f. 139D, 142E (m)

Desis formidabilis Polotow, Carmichael & Griswold, 2015: 143, f. 10E, 14B, 20B, 21A (mf)

Desis formidabilis Baehr, Raven & Harms, 2017: 120, f. 7G (m)

Desis formidabilis Crews et al., 2020: 904, f. 13L-N, 14A-B,H, S7D-E,G-I (mf)

Desis formidabilis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021g: 6, p. 5: 2 f., p. 6: 7 f. (mf)

Desis galapagoensis Hirst, 1925 | | Ecuador (Galapagos Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021482

Desis galapagoensis Hirst, 1925: 271 (Dm) Original description

Desis isolata Banks, 1930b: 274, pl. 2, f. 4-5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055385]

Desis galapagoensis Roth, 1967b: 5 (S of Desis isolata)

Desis galapagoensis Roth, 1976: 14, f. 1-13 (mf)

Desis gardineri Pocock, 1904 | | India (Laccadive Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021483

Desis gardineri Pocock, 1904: 802, pl. 66, f. 4 (Df) Original description

Desis inermis Gravely, 1927 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021485

Desis inermis Gravely, 1927: 161, pl. A-B (Dmf) Original description

Desis inermis Lehtinen, 1967: 440, f. 131 (f)

Desis japonica Yaginuma, 1956 | | Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021486

Desis japonica Yaginuma, 1956b: 364, f. 1-5 (Dm) Original description

Desis japonica Yaginuma, 1960: 79, f. 72 (m)

Desis japonica Yaginuma, 1971: 79, f. 72 (m, Df)

Desis japonica Irie, 1985: 7, f. 15-17 (m)

Desis japonica Yaginuma, 1986a: 153, f. 83.2 (m)

Desis japonica Matsuda, 2004: 12, f. 1-3 (m)

Desis japonica Ono, 2009a: 151, f. 1-9 (mf)

Desis jiaxiangi Lin, Li & Chen, 2020 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051749

Desis jiaxiangi Lin, Li & Chen, 2020: 593, f. 1A-C, 2A-B, 3A-B, 4 (Dmf) Original description

Desis kenyonae Pocock, 1902 | | Australia (Victoria, Tasmania) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021487

Desis kenyonae Pocock, 1902c: 102, f. 21 (Df) Original description

Desis kenyonae Hickman, 1949: 38, f. 9-15 (f, Dm)

Desis kenyonae Lehtinen, 1967: 440, f. 130 (m)

Desis kenyonae Hickman, 1967: 72, f. 129-131 (mf)

Desis kenyoni Davies, 1998a: 212, f. 7 (m)

Desis marina (Hector, 1878) | | New Caledonia, New Zealand (mainland, Chatham Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021488

Dandridgea dysderoides White, 1849: 5 (D; preoccupied by Walckenaer, 1837, see Desis maxillosa) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055996]

Argyronetra marina Hector in Robson, 1878: 300 (Df, lapsus) Original description

Desis robsoni Powell, 1879: 263, pl. 12 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055997]

Robsonia marina O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880a: 687, pl. 52, f. 4 (Dm, T from Argyroneta)

Desis marinus Pocock, 1895b: 143 (T from Robsonia, S of Dandridgea dysderoides and Desis robsoni)

Desis marina Lehtinen, 1967: 440, f. 129 (m)

Desis marina Forster, 1970b: 23, f. 7, 34-40, 196 (mf)

Desis marina Coddington, 1990: 10, f. 25 (m)

Desis martensi L. Koch, 1872 | | Singapore, Indonesia (Java) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021489

Desis martensi L. Koch, 1872a: 347, pl. 29, f. 2 (Dmf) Original description

Desis martensi Workman, 1896: 74, pl. 74 (mf)

Desis martensi Bristowe, 1930a: 343, f. 1 (f)

Desis maxillosa (Fabricius, 1793) | | New Guinea, New Caledonia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021490

Aranea maxillosa Fabricius, 1793: 411 (Df) Original description

Desis dysderoides Walckenaer, 1837: 610, pl. 4, f. 15 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055998]

Desis maxillosa Schiødte, 1849a: 21 (T from Aranea, S of Desis dysderoides Walckenaer)

Desis maxillosa Simon, 1898a: 228, f. 215-217

Desis risbeci Berland, 1931 | | New Caledonia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021491

Desis risbeci Berland, 1931b: 666, f. 1-4 (Dmf) Original description

Desis tangana Roewer, 1955 | | East Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021492

Desis tangana Roewer, 1955b: 96, f. 37a-e (Dmf) Original description

Desis vorax L. Koch, 1872 | | Samoa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021493

Desis vorax L. Koch, 1872a: 345, pl. 29, f. 1 (Dm) Original description

Desis vorax Simon, 1898a: 227, f. 218-219 (m)

Desis vorax Baehr, Raven & Harms, 2017: 117, f. 6A-F, 7E-F (m)