World Spider Catalog

Oonopidae Simon, 1890

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: For discussions of monophyly, see Burger & Michalik, 2010: 11 and Platnick et al., 2012a: 32, monophyly confirmed by de Busschere et al., 2014. The family contains three subfamilies (Platnick et al., 2012a, de Busschere et al., 2014): Oonopinae Simon, 1890 (= Gamasomorphinae Petrunkevitch, 1923), Orchestininae Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 and Sulsulinae Platnick, 2012. The family Brucharachnidae Mello-Leitão, 1925 (Mello-Leitão, 1925c: 234), with its single genus and species (Brucharachne ecitophilus Mello-Leitão, 1925 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051362]) was provisionally placed within Oonopidae by Brignoli, 1980j: 731, transferred to Acari, Mesostigmata, Dermanyssoidea, family Laelapidae, and the genus Brucharachne Mello-Leitão, 1925 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04556] was synonymized with Sphaeroseius Berlese, 1904 by Krantz & Platnick, 1995: 3.

Gen. Sulsula Simon, 1882 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00545

type Sulsula longipes Simon, 1882; gender feminine; syn. of Sulsula pauper (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)

Transferred to other genera:

Sulsula parvimana Simon, 1910 -- see Dalmasula

In synonymy:

Sulsula longipes Simon, 1882 = Sulsula pauper (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) (Simon, 1910b: 178)

Sulsula meghairica Zamani & Alioua, 2026 | | Algeria urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:067334

Sulsula meghairica Zamani & Alioua, in Zamani et al., 2026b: 16, f. 11A-F (Dm) Original description

Sulsula pauper (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) | | Algeria, Egypt, Sudan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005188 TYPE SPECIES

Oonops pauper O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876b: 549 (Dj) Original description

Sulsula longipes Simon, 1882c: 237 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066069]

Salsula longipes Simon, 1893a: 294 (unjustified emendation)

Salsula paupera Simon, 1910b: 178 (S of Sulsula longipes)

Salsula pauper Simon, 1911b: 308

Sulsula pauper Platnick et al., 2012a: 38, f. 121-172 (m, Df)