Family CHEIRACANTHIIDAE Wagner, 1887
Compiler and date details
2012 - Updated by Dr Robert Raven, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, with families by Dr Barbara Baehr, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, and Dr Helen Smith, Australian Museum, Sydney, as indicated for each of these.
- Cheiracanthiidae Wagner, W.A. 1887. Copulationsorgane des Männchens als Criterium für die Systematik der Spinnen. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 22: 3-132, pl.1-10 [105] (as Cheiracantidae).
- Eutichuridae Lehtinen, P.T. 1967. Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468 [312].
Type genus:
Eutichurus Simon, 1896.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Ramirez, M.J. 2014. The morphology and phylogeny of Dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 390: 1-374 [340-341]
- Ono, H. & Ogata, K. 2018. Spiders of Japan: their natural history and diversity. Kanagawa : Tokai University Press pp.713. [611] (Under the principle of priority of the ICZN, Cheiracanthidae Wagner, 1887, should be used)
Introduction
Currently contains two genera. The genus Eutittha Thorell, 1889 was removed from synonymy with Cheiracanthium C.L. Koch, 1839 by Esyunin & Zamani (2020) however this arrangement was rejected by Raven & Hebron (2024). We retain Eutittha as a synonym of Cheiracanthium.
Excluded Taxa
- Other Excluded
CHEIRACANTHIIDAE: Cheiracanthium longimanum L. Koch, 1873 [types reportedly from Australia believed to be in error, restricted to Fiji. See Raven & Hebron (2024)] — Raven, R.J. & Hebron,W. 2024. A review of the spider genus Calamoneta Deeleman-Reinhold, a new genus in the Western Pacific and the genus Eutittha Thorell (Araneomorphae: Cheiracanthiidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 65: 82-109 [92-93]
General References
Esyunin, S.L. & Zamani, A. 2020. ‘Conundrum of esoterica’: on the long-forgotten genus Eutittha Thorell, 1878, with new taxonomic considerations in Cheiracanthium C. L. Koch, 1839 (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae). Journal of Natural History 54: 1293–1323
Raven, R.J. & Hebron,W. 2024. A review of the spider genus Calamoneta Deeleman-Reinhold, a new genus in the Western Pacific and the genus Eutittha Thorell (Araneomorphae: Cheiracanthiidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 65: 82-109
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15-Nov-2024 | CHEIRACANTHIIDAE Wagner, 1887 | 07-Nov-2024 | MODIFIED | |
| 23-Dec-2019 | CHEIRACANTHIIDAE Wagner, 1887 | 06-Dec-2019 | MODIFIED | |
| ARANEOMORPHAE | 06-Sep-2017 | ADDED |