World Spider Catalog

Pisauridae Simon, 1890

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: placement of some nursery-web spiders in a separate family Dolomedidae Simon, 1898a: 281, 301 (Lehtinen, 1967) [but Dolomedinae was first used by Simon, 1876a: 226, which makes it older than Pisauridae, overlooked by Bonnet, 1956: 1543] was rejected by Sierwald, 1990: 50, who also recognized a "Trechalea genus group [that] is not a close relative of the nursery-web Pisauridae" and whose members are now listed under Trechaleidae; considered a synonym of Bradystichidae Simon, 1884e: 298 (removed from the synonymy of Lycosidae by Lehtinen, 1967: 293) by Platnick & Forster, 1993: 3 and of Halidae Jocqué, 1994b: 281 by Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006: 212; probably includes Senoculidae (Murphy & Roberts, 2015: ix); mentioning of "Dolomediens" by Simon, 1864: 342, but the French ending -iens was not accepted as taxon at familiar level by Bonnet and Platnick, and this is continued here; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 518, f. 17-18.

Nomina dubia

Ocyale Audouin, 1826, type O. atalanta Audouin, 1826 -- Sherwood, 2022c: 583

Gen. Ocyale Audouin, 1826 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01641

N.B.: type species is O. atalanta Audouin, 1826, a nomen dubium (at species level, see Alderweireldt, 1996: 1351); considered a senior synonym of Hippasosa Roewer, 1960d: 1003 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01623] (type H. pilosa Roewer, 1960) by Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 2005: 46, 63; synonymy rejected and Ocyale declared a nomen dubium (in Pisauridae) by Sherwood, 2022c: 583.

Transferred to other genera:

Ocyale conspersa Karsch, 1879 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale dewinterae Alderweireldt, 1996 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale discrepans Roewer, 1960 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale fera Strand, 1908 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale ghost Jocque & Jocqué, 2017 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale grandis Alderweireldt, 1996 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale guttata (Karsch, 1878) -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale huachoi (Mello-Leitão, 1942) -- see Prolycosides

Ocyale ingenua (Karsch, 1879) -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale kalpiensis Gajbe, 2004 -- see Arctosa

Ocyale kumari Dyal, 1935 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale lanca (Karsch, 1879) -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale maculata (L. Koch, 1875) -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale natalica (Roewer, 1960) -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale neatalanta Alderweireldt, 1996 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale oraria (L. Koch, 1876) -- see Tetralycosa

Ocyale pelliona (Audouin, 1826) -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale pilosa (Roewer, 1960) -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale qiongzhongensis Yin & Peng, 1997 -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale spissa (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) -- see Hippasosa

Ocyale spissides Strand, 1908 -- see Hippasosa

Nomen dubium:

Ocyale atalanta Audouin, 1826: 150, pl. 4, f. 10 (f, Israel) * -- Alderweireldt, 1996: 1351, confirmed by Sherwood, 2022c: 583