World Spider Catalog

Macrobunidae Bonnet, 1957

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: elevated from subfamily of Amaurobiidae by Gorneau et al., 2023: 10, but with the authorpship of Petrunkevitch, 1928: 44, 114, who used Myropsininae (Myropsis is preoccupied); Bonnet, 1957: 2689 corrected to Macrobuninae (see Lin et al., 2024: 19); included genera listed by Wheeler et al., 2017: 605 (sub Macrobuninae, see also Gorneau et al., 2023: 10 and Lin et al., 2024: 19).

In synonymy:

Opsaltella Mello-Leitão, 1941 = Callevopsis Tullgren, 1902 (Ramírez, 1996a: 2)

Gen. Callevopsis Tullgren, 1902 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02012

type Callevopsis striata Tullgren, 1902; gender feminine

N.B.: possibly related to the Dictynidae, Argyronetidae and/or Cybaeidae (Ramírez, 1996a: 2); transferred from the Amaurobiidae to the Macrobunidae by Gorneau et al., 2023: 10; considered a senior synonym of Opsaltella Mello-Leitão, 1941d: 114 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04919] (type O. diffusa Mello-Leitão, 1941) by Ramírez, 1996a: 2 (contra Lehtinen, 1967: 254, who transferred it from the Dictynidae and synonymized it with Macrobunus Tullgren, 1901).

In synonymy:

Callevopsis diffusa (Mello-Leitão, 1941, T from Macrobunus) = Callevopsis striata Tullgren, 1902 (Ramírez, 1996a: 2)

Callevopsis striata Tullgren, 1902 | | Chile, Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022676 TYPE SPECIES

Callevopsis striata Tullgren, 1902: 7, pl. 1, f. 1 (Df) Original description

Opsaltella diffusa Mello-Leitão, 1941d: 115, f. 13, pl. 3, f. 9 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064964]

Callevopsis striata Lehtinen, 1967: 438, f. 96 (f)

Callevopsis striata Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1974: 81, f. 11-13 (f; m f. 8-10 see Anisacate fuegianum bransfieldi)

Callevopsis striata Ramírez, 1996a: 2, f. 2-10 (Dm, f, S of Macrobunus diffusus)