The World Spider Catalog, Version 8.5
by Norman I. Platnick

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FAM. HOMALONYCHIDAE Simon, 1893 [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spiderfam:0075]

Last updated June 19, 2007

N.B.: considered a subfamily of Zodariidae by Wunderlich, 2004l: 1585.

Transferred to other families:
Megapyge Caporiacco, 1947 -- see Thomisidae.

Gen. Homalonychus Marx, 1891 [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidergen:02326]

Transferred to other genera:
H. joyaus Tikader, 1970 -- see Storenomorpha under Zodariidae.

In synonymy:
H. positivus Chamberlin, 1924 = H. selenopoides Marx, 1891 (Roth, 1984: 8).

f raghavai Patel & Reddy, 1991....................India [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidersp:026153]
H. r. Patel & Reddy, 1991a: 205, f. 1a-d (Df; N.B.: misplaced in this genus).

mf selenopoides Marx, 1891 *....................USA, Mexico [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidersp:026154]
H. s. Marx, 1891: 30, pl. 1, f. 1 (Df).
H. s. Simon, 1893a: 413, f. 372, 375.
H. positivus Chamberlin, 1924b: 630, f. 68 (Df).
H. s. Comstock, 1940: 339, f. 316a-f (f).
H. s. Roth, 1984: 8, f. 2, 5, 8-13 (f, Sm).

mf theologus Chamberlin, 1924....................USA, Mexico [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidersp:026155]
H. t. Chamberlin, 1924b: 631, f. 69 (Df).
H. t. Roth, 1984: 10, f. 3-4, 6-7 (mf).
H. t. Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006: 140, f. 47a-h (mf).