World Spider Catalog

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Lyssomanidae Blackwall, 1877 by Galiano, 1976b: 67; for illustrations of scale morphology of about 60 species, see Hill, 1979; for the phylogeny within the family see Maddison & Hedin, 2003b, Maddison, 2015, Maddison et al., 2017, Prószyński, 2017b and Zhang et al., 2024f; the subfamilies Asemoneinae Maddison, 2015, Eupoinae Maddison, 2015, Hisponinae Simon 1901, Lyssomaninae, Onomastinae Maddison, 2015, Salticinae and Spartaeinae Wanless, 1984 are confirmed by Zhang et al., 2024f: 347.

In synonymy:

Scirtetes L. Koch, 1879 = Damoetas G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1886 (Peckham & Peckham, 1886: 277, preoccupied, replacement name)

Gen. Damoetas G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1886 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02915

type Scirtetes nitidus L. Koch, 1879; gender masculine

N.B.: replacement name for Scirtetes L. Koch, 1879a: 1070 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05967], preoccupied in Hymenoptera by Hartig, 1838.

Transferred to other genera:

Damoetas christae Prószyński, 2001 -- see Hermosa

Damoetas galianoae Prószyński, 2001 -- see Hermosa

Damoetas nitidus (L. Koch, 1879) | | Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033069 TYPE SPECIES

Scirtetes nitidus L. Koch, 1879a: 1070, pl. 94, f. 2-3 (Dm) Original description

Damoetas nitidus Peckham & Peckham, 1886: 277

Damoetas nitidus Davies & Żabka, 1989: 200, pl. 11 (m, Df)

Damoetas nitidus Prószyński, 2017b: 103, f. 45E, 46P (mf)