World Spider Catalog

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: revalidated by Levy, 1990a: 139; considered a senior synonym of Zorocratidae Dahl, 1913: 21 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0035] and of Tengellidae Dahl, 1908: 194 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0046] by Polotow, Carmichael & Griswold, 2015: 152; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 517, f. 17-18.

Gen. Paraltellopsis Mello-Leitão, 1925 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05962

type Altellopsis luteus Mello-Leitão, 1924; gender masculine; syn. of Ciniflella lutea Mello-Leitão, 1921

Transferred to other genera:

Paraltellopsis luteus (Mello-Leitão, 1924) -- see Ciniflella