World Spider Catalog

Desidae Pocock, 1895

Family | ACCEPTED

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

type Desis dysderoides Walckenaer, 1837; gender feminine; syn. of Desis maxillosa (Fabricius, 1793)

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) = 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] -- Yaginuma, in Brignoli, 1983c: 487

Desis sakaguchii Kishida, 1959: 372 (Japan/Okinawa) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054935] -- Yaginuma, in 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 | | Galapagos 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 gardineri Sudhin, Sankaran & Sen, 2026a: 147, f. 1-3 (f)

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 inermis Sudhin, Sankaran & Sen, 2026a: 147, f. 5-13 (m)

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 japonica Nakatani, 2025: 32, f. 1-6 (m)

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 White 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 martensii L. Koch, 1872a: 347, pl. 29, f. 2-2g (Dmf) Original description

Desis martensii Workman, 1896: 74, pl. 74a-h (mf)

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

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

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)