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.

Gen. Osericta Simon, 1901 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03111

type Osericta dives Simon, 1901; gender feminine

Transferred to other genera:

Osericta cancellata Mello-Leitão, 1943 -- see Cotinusa

Osericta trifasciata Mello-Leitão, 1943 -- see Cotinusa

Osericta cheliferoides (Taczanowski, 1878) | | Peru urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035094

Chirothecia cheliferoides Taczanowski, 1878a: 363, pl. 4, f. 1-2 (Df) Original description

Osericta cheliferoides Galiano, 1972b: 37, f. 52, 70-72 (f, T from Chirothecia)

Osericta dives Simon, 1901 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035095 TYPE SPECIES

Osericta dives Simon, 1901a: 534, f. 643

Osericta dives Simon, 1901g: 75 (Df) Original description

Osericta dives Galiano, 1963a: 413, pl. XXXII, f. 1-2 (f)