World Spider Catalog

Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Hadrotarsidae Thorell, 1881 (removed from the synonymy of Oonopidae by Roewer, 1963a: 122, contra Roewer, 1942a: 287) by Forster, Platnick & Coddington, 1990: 111 (after Wunderlich, 1978a: 25 and Wunderlich, 1986: 95, contra Baert, 1984a: 615 and Davies, 1985: 67), who recognized an expanded Hadrotarsinae as well as a separate subfamily Spintharinae.

Nomina dubia

Pronopius Menge, 1869, type P. providus Menge, 1869 -- Roewer, 1955c: omitted, taken as nomen dubium by Platnick

Gen. Pronopius Menge, 1869 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04008

N.B.: probably a senior synonym of Achaearanea Strand, 1929 (Prószyński & Starega, 1971: 83); but Pronopius providus Menge, 1869 is a probable synonym of Achaearanea lunata (Clerck, 1757) and this species is meanwhile transferred to Parasteatoda Archer, 1946.

Nomen dubium:

Pronopius providus Menge, 1869: 243, f. 142 (Dm). -- Roewer, 1955c: omitted, taken as nomen dubium by Platnick