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N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Hadrotarsidae Thorell, 1881: 190 (sub Hadrotarsoidae, removed from the synonymy of Oonopidae by Roewer, 1963a: 122, rejecting Roewer, 1942a: 287) by Forster, Platnick & Coddington, 1990: 111 (per Wunderlich, 1978a: 25 and Wunderlich, 1986: 95, rejecting Baert, 1984a: 615 and Davies, 1985: 67), who recognized an expanded Hadrotarsinae as well as a separate subfamily Spintharinae Simon, 1894a: 512 (sub Spinthareae); the subfamily Theonoeinae Simon, 1894a: 586 (sub Theonoeae) (synonym Pholcommatinae Simon, 1894a: 589, sub Pholcommateae), which include Theonoe Simon, 1881, Carniella Thaler & Steinberger, 1988, Robertus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879 and Pholcomma Thorell, 1869, is circumscribed by Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 51; Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 also mention the subfamilies Argyrodinae Simon, 1881a: 14 (sub Argyrodini) and Latrodectinae Petrunkevitch, 1928: 117 (junior synyonym of Dipoeninae Simon, 1894a: 561, sub Dipoeneae).
Transferred to other genera:
Paidiscura genistae (Simon, 1873) -- see Theridion
Paidiscura genistae turanica (Charitonov, 1946) -- see Theridion
Paidiscura musiva (Simon, 1873) -- see Ruborridion
Paidiscura pinicola (Simon, 1873) -- see Theridion
In synonymy:
Paidiscura albens (Blackwall, 1841) = Paidiscura pallens (Blackwall, 1834) (Thorell, 1873: 438, sub Theridion)
Paidiscura bigibba (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1912) = Paidiscura dromedaria (Simon, 1880) (Wunderlich, 1977a: 290, sub Theridion)
Paidiscura caboverdensis (Schmidt & Piepho, 1994, T from Achaearanea) = Paidiscura dromedaria (Simon, 1880) (Schmidt & Krause, 1996: 263)
Paidiscura caninotata (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906, T from Dipoena) = Paidiscura subpallens (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) (Yoshida, 1988: 25, sub Theridion)
Paidiscura hystrica (C. L. Koch, 1837, T from Micryphantes) = Paidiscura pallens (Blackwall, 1834) (Simon, 1881a: 107, sub Theridion)
Paidiscura minima (Wider, 1834) = Paidiscura pallens (Blackwall, 1834) (Thorell, 1873: 438, sub Theridion)
Paidiscura mirabilis (Zhu, Zhang & Xu, 1991) = Paidiscura subpallens (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) (Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 142, sub Theridion)
Paidiscura nubila (Blackwall, 1837, T from Epeira) = Paidiscura pallens (Blackwall, 1834) (Thorell, 1873: 438, sub Theridion)
Paidiscura palustris (Pavesi, 1880) = Paidiscura dromedaria (Simon, 1880) (Simon, 1908a: 427, sub Theridion)
Paidiscura persubtilis (L. Koch, 1877) = Paidiscura pallens (Blackwall, 1834) (Simon, 1881a: 107, sub Theridion)
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