World Spider Catalog

Toxopidae Hickman, 1940

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: separation of Toxopidae from Desidae (genera Gasparia, Gohia, Hapona, Hulua, Laestrygones, Lamina, Myro, Neomyro, Ommatauxesis, Otagoa and Toxops) by Wheeler et al., 2017: 608-609; for former comments on the status of Toxops and related taxa see Jocqué, 1994b: 283; Toxopidae is divided in two subfamilies (Wheeler et al., 2017: 609): Toxopinae (Hapona, Jamara, Laestrygones, Lamina, Midgee, Toxops and Toxopsoides) and Myroinae (Gasparia, Gohia, Hulua, Neomyro, Myro, Ommatauxesis and Otagoa); Midgeeinae Davies, 1995 (Midgee and Jamara) are transferred from the Amaurobiidae and synonymized with Toxopinae; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 515

Gen. Hulua Forster & Wilton, 1973 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01867

N.B.: transfer to Amaurobiidae (Murphy & Roberts, 2015: viii) not sufficiently justified and is not accepted here; transferred from tje Desidae to the Toxopidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 609.

Hulua convoluta Forster & Wilton, 1973 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021557

Hulua convoluta Forster & Wilton, 1973: 303, f. 1064-1066 (Dmf) Original description

Hulua manga Forster & Wilton, 1973 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021558

Hulua manga Forster & Wilton, 1973: 305, f. 1069 (Df) Original description

Hulua minima Forster & Wilton, 1973 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021559

Hulua minima Forster & Wilton, 1973: 305, f. 1063, 1068 (Df) Original description

Hulua pana Forster & Wilton, 1973 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021560

Hulua pana Forster & Wilton, 1973: 305, f. 1067 (Df) Original description