Family: Cybaeidae Banks, 1892 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0038] Back

Gen. Mastigusa Menge, 1854 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01985 ]
N.B.: type species is from Baltic amber; first used by Wunderlich, 1986: 67 for recent species previously misplaced in Tetrilus and placed in the Agelenidae; transferred from the Dictynidae to the Hahniidae by Wheeler et al., 2017: 607 [not explicitely, but the type genus of Cicurininae, Cicurina Menge, 1871, was transferred] and to the Cybaeidae by Castellucci, Scharff & Luchetti, 2023: 6; transfer to the Cicurinidae by Murphy & Roberts, 2015: viii not sufficiently justified and was not accepted here; considered a senior synonym of Giltayia Kishida, 1955: 6 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05828] (type Cryphoeca arientina Thorell, 1871) and of Paratetrilus Kishida, 1955: 6 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05829] (type Tetrilus lucifuga Simon 1898), because both type species belong to Mastigusa (both genera were considered nomina nuda in Agelenidae by Yaginuma, in Brignoli, 1983c: 468).
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-03-29
Described in
C. L. Koch & Berendt, 1854: 94 (type Mastigusa acuminata Menge, 1854 (fossil); gender feminine)
Species counts
Counts Status
4accepted
2synonym
Reference

Koch, C. L. & Berendt, G. C. (1854). Die im Bernstein befindlichen Crustaceen, Myriapoden, Arachniden und Apteren der Vorwelt. In: Berendt, G. C. (ed.) Die im Bernstein befindlichen organischen Reste der Vorwelt gesammelt in Verbindung mit Mehreren bearbeitet. Erster Band. II. Abtheilung. Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin, 124 pp., 17 pls. [includes 'Ergänzungen und Berichtigungen' by A. Menge] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.66910 download pdf

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-08-18 Genus transferred to other family Castellucci, Scharff & Luchetti, 2023 Mastigusa Menge, 1854 transferred to Cybaeidae
2022-11-11 Genus synonymy Kishida, 1955 Paratetrilus synonymized with Mastigusa
2022-11-11 Genus synonymy Kishida, 1955 Giltayia synonymized with Mastigusa
2017-11-13 Genus transferred to other family Wheeler et al., 2017 Mastigusa Menge, 1854 transferred to Hahniidae