List of Pisauridae species

This article lists all described species of the spider family Pisauridae accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of February 2021^[update]:^[1]

Contents

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• H
• I
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• V
• W

• References

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A

Afropisaura

Afropisaura Blandin, 1976

• A. ducis (Strand, 1913) — West, Central, East Africa
• A. rothiformis (Strand, 1908) — West, Central, East Africa
• A. valida (Simon, 1886) (type) — West, Central Africa

Archipirata

Archipirata Simon, 1898

• A. tataricus Simon, 1898 (type) — Turkmenistan, China

Architis

Architis Simon, 1898

• A. altamira Santos, 2007 — Brazil
• A. amazonica (Simon, 1898) — Brazil
• A. brasiliensis (Mello-Leitão, 1940) — Brazil
• A. capricorna Carico, 1981 — Brazil, Argentina
• A. catuaba Santos, 2008 — Brazil, Peru
• A. colombo Santos, 2007 — Brazil
• A. comaina Santos, 2007 — Peru
• A. cymatilis Carico, 1981 — Trinidad, Colombia to Brazil
• A. dianasilvae Santos, 2007 — Peru
• A. erwini Santos, 2007 — Ecuador
• A. fritzmuelleri Santos, 2007 — Brazil
• A. gracilis Santos, 2008 — Brazil
• A. helveola (Simon, 1898) — Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil
• A. ikuruwa Carico, 1981 — Guyana, Suriname, Peru, Bolivia
• A. maturaca Santos, 2007 — Brazil
• A. neblina Santos & Nogueira, 2008 — Brazil
• A. robusta Carico, 1981 — Panama, Brazil
• A. spinipes (Taczanowski, 1874) — Panama, Trinidad to Argentina
• A. tenuipes (Simon, 1898) — Brazil
• A. tenuis Simon, 1898 (type) — Panama to Brazil
• A. turvo Santos, 2007 — Brazil

B

Blandinia

Blandinia Tonini, Paulo da Silva, Serpa Filho & Freitas, 2016

• B. mahasoana (Blandin, 1979) (type) — Madagascar

C

Caripetella

Caripetella Strand, 1928

• C. madagascariensis (Lenz, 1886) (type) — Madagascar, Comoros

Charminus

Charminus Thorell, 1899

• C. aethiopicus (Caporiacco, 1939) — Ethiopia, Kenya
• C. ambiguus (Lessert, 1925) — East, Southern Africa
  • C. a. concolor (Caporiacco, 1947) — East Africa
• C. atomarius (Lawrence, 1942) — Central, East, Southern Africa
• C. bifidus Blandin, 1978 — Rwanda
• C. camerunensis Thorell, 1899 (type) — West, Central Africa
• C. marfieldi (Roewer, 1955) — West, Central Africa
• C. minor (Lessert, 1928) — Ivory Coast, Congo
• C. natalensis (Lawrence, 1947) — South Africa
• C. rotundus Blandin, 1978 — Congo

Chiasmopes

Chiasmopes

Chiasmopes lineatus

Chiasmopes Pavesi, 1883

• C. hystrix (Berland, 1922) — Ethiopia
• C. lineatus (Pocock, 1898) — Central, East, Southern Africa
• C. namaquensis (Roewer, 1955) — Namibia
• C. signatus (Pocock, 1902) — South Africa

Cispinilus

Cispinilus Roewer, 1955

• C. flavidus (Simon, 1909) (type) — Central Africa

Cispius

Cispius

Cispius kimbius

Cispius Simon, 1898

• C. affinis Lessert, 1916 — East Africa
• C. bidentatus Lessert, 1936 — Central, East Africa
• C. kimbius Blandin, 1978 — South Africa
• C. maruanus (Roewer, 1955) — West, Central Africa
• C. problematicus Blandin, 1978 — Congo
• C. simoni Lessert, 1915 — East Africa
• C. strandi Caporiacco, 1947 — East Africa
• C. thorelli Blandin, 1978 — Congo
• C. variegatus Simon, 1898 (type) — Congo

Cladycnis

Cladycnis Simon, 1898

• C. insignis (Lucas, 1838) (type) — Canary Is.

Conakrya

Conakrya Schmidt, 1956

• C. wolffi Schmidt, 1956 (type) — Guinea

D

Dendrolycosa

Dendrolycosa Doleschall, 1859

• D. bairdi Jäger, 2011 — Laos
• D. bobbiliensis (Reddy & Patel, 1993) — India
• D. cruciata (Roewer, 1955) — Tanzania
• D. duckitti Jäger, 2011 — Laos, Indonesia (Sumatra)
• D. fusca Doleschall, 1859 (type) — Indonesia (Ambon)
• D. gitae (Tikader, 1970) — India (mainland, Andaman Is.)
• D. icadia (L. Koch, 1876) — Australia (Queensland)
• D. kakadu Raven & Hebron, 2018 — Australia (Northern Territory)
• D. lepida (Thorell, 1890) — Indonesia (Sumatra)
• D. ornata (Berland, 1924) — New Caledonia
• D. parangbusta (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) — Philippines
• D. putiana (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) — Philippines
• D. robusta (Thorell, 1895) — China, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam
• D. rossi Silva & Griswold, 2013 — Madagascar
• D. sierwaldae Jäger, 2011 — New Guinea
• D. songi (Zhang, 2000) — China
• D. yuka Jäger, 2011 — South Africa

E

Eucamptopus

Eucamptopus Pocock, 1900

• E. coronatus Pocock, 1900 (type) — India

Euprosthenops

Euprosthenops Pocock, 1897

• E. australis Simon, 1898 — Senegal, Nigeria, Zambia, Botswana, South Africa
• E. bayaonianus (Brito Capello, 1867) (type) — West, Central, East Africa
• E. benoiti Blandin, 1976 — Rwanda
• E. biguttatus Roewer, 1955 — Congo, Namibia
• E. ellioti (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) — India
• E. pavesii Lessert, 1928 — Central, East Africa
• E. proximus Lessert, 1916 — Central, East, Southern Africa
  • E. p. maximus Blandin, 1976 — Ivory Coast
• E. schenkeli (Roewer, 1955) — East Africa
• E. wuehlischi Roewer, 1955 — Namibia

Euprosthenopsis

Euprosthenopsis Blandin, 1974

• E. armata (Strand, 1913) (type) — Central, East Africa
• E. lamorali Blandin, 1977 — South Africa
• E. lesserti (Roewer, 1955) — East Africa
  • E. l. garambensis (Lessert, 1928) — Central Africa
• E. pulchella (Pocock, 1902) — South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini
• E. rothschildi Blandin, 1977 — Kenya
• E. vachoni Blandin, 1977 — Djibouti
• E. vuattouxi Blandin, 1977 — Ivory Coast

H

Hala

Hala Jocqué, 1994

• H. impigra Jocqué, 1994 (type) — Madagascar
• H. paulyi Jocqué, 1994 — Madagascar

Hygropoda

Hygropoda

Hygropoda higenaga, female

Hygropoda Thorell, 1894

• H. africana Simon, 1898 — Gabon, Sierra Leone
• H. albolimbata (Thorell, 1878) — Indonesia (Ambon)
• H. argentata Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004 — China, Thailand
• H. balingkinitanus (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) — Philippines
• H. borbonica (Vinson, 1863) — Réunion
• H. bottrelli (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) — Philippines
• H. campanulata Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004 — China, Thailand
• H. celebesiana (Strand, 1913) — Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• H. chandrakantii (Reddy & Patel, 1993) — India
• H. dolomedes (Doleschall, 1859) — Indonesia (Ambon)
• H. gracilis (Thorell, 1891) — India (Nicobar Is.)
• H. higenaga (Kishida, 1936) — China, Taiwan, Japan
• H. linearis (Simon, 1903) — Madagascar
• H. lineata (Thorell, 1881) — Indonesia to Australia
• H. longimana (Stoliczka, 1869) — Bangladesh, Malaysia
• H. longitarsis (Thorell, 1877) — Vietnam, Indonesia (Sulawesi)
  • H. l. fasciata (Thorell, 1877) — Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• H. macropus Pocock, 1897 — Indonesia (Moluccas)
• H. menglun Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004 — China
• H. procera Thorell, 1895 — Myanmar
• H. prognatha Thorell, 1894 (type) — Singapore
• H. sikkimus (Tikader, 1970) — India (mainland, Andaman Is.)
• H. subannulipes Strand, 1911 — Indonesia (Aru Is.)
• H. taeniata Wang, 1993 — China
• H. tangana (Roewer, 1955) — Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, Madagascar
• H. yunnan Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004 — China, Thailand, Laos

I

Ilipula

Ilipula Simon, 1903

• I. anguicula Simon, 1903 (type) — Vietnam

Inola

Inola Davies, 1982

• I. amicabilis Davies, 1982 (type) — Australia (Queensland)
• I. cracentis Davies, 1982 — Australia (Queensland)
• I. daviesae Tio & Humphrey, 2010 — Australia (Queensland)
• I. subtilis Davies, 1982 — Australia (Queensland)

M

Maypacius

Maypacius Simon, 1898

• M. bilineatus (Pavesi, 1895) (type) — Central, East Africa, Madagascar
• M. christophei Blandin, 1975 — Congo
• M. curiosus Blandin, 1975 — Congo
• M. gilloni Blandin, 1978 — Senegal
• M. kaestneri Roewer, 1955 — West, Central Africa
• M. petrunkevitchi Lessert, 1933 — Angola, Rwanda
• M. roeweri Blandin, 1975 — Congo
• M. stuhlmanni (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) — Tanzania (mainland, Zanzibar)
• M. vittiger Simon, 1898 — Madagascar

N

Nilus

Nilus

Fishing spider
(Nilus albocinctus)

Nilus curtus

Nilus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876

• N. albocinctus (Doleschall, 1859) — India to Philippines
• N. curtus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 (type) — Africa
• N. decorata (Patel & Reddy, 1990) — India
• N. esimoni (Sierwald, 1984) — Madagascar
• N. jayakari (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) — Oman
• N. kolosvaryi (Caporiacco, 1947) — Central, East, Southern Africa
• N. leoninus (Strand, 1916) — Madagascar
• N. majungensis (Strand, 1907) — Mayotte, Madagascar
• N. margaritatus (Pocock, 1898) — Central, South Africa
• N. massajae (Pavesi, 1883) — Africa
• N. paralbocinctus (Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004) — China, Laos
• N. phipsoni (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) — India to China, Indonesia
• N. pictus (Simon, 1898) — West, Central Africa
• N. pseudoalbocinctus (Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2010) — India
• N. pseudojuvenilis (Sierwald, 1987) — Mozambique
• N. radiatolineatus (Strand, 1906) — Africa
• N. rossi (Pocock, 1902) — Central, South Africa
• N. rubromaculatus (Thorell, 1899) — West, Central Africa

P

Papakula

Papakula Strand, 1911

• P. niveopunctata Strand, 1911 (type) — Indonesia (Aru Is.)

Paracladycnis

Paracladycnis Blandin, 1979

• P. vis Blandin, 1979 (type) — Madagascar

Perenethis

Perenethis

Perenethis venusta, male

Perenethis L. Koch, 1878

• P. dentifasciata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) — Pakistan or India
• P. fascigera (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) — China, Korea, Japan
• P. simoni (Lessert, 1916) — Africa, Comoros
• P. sindica (Simon, 1897) — India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Philippines
• P. symmetrica (Lawrence, 1927) — Africa
• P. venusta L. Koch, 1878 (type) — India, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Queensland, Western Australia)

Phalaeops

Phalaeops Roewer, 1955

• P. mossambicus Roewer, 1955 (type) — Mozambique
• P. somalicus Roewer, 1955 — Djibouti

Pisaura

Pisaura

Pisaura mirabilis

Pisaura Simon, 1886

• P. acoreensis Wunderlich, 1992 — Azores
• P. anahitiformis Kishida, 1910 — Japan
• P. ancora Paik, 1969 — Russia, China, Korea
• P. bicornis Zhang & Song, 1992 — China, Japan
• P. consocia (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) — Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, Syria
• P. lama Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 — Russia, China, Korea, Japan
• P. mirabilis (Clerck, 1757) (type) — Europe, Turkey, Middle East, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Middle Siberia), Central Asia, China
• P. novicia (L. Koch, 1878) — Mediterranean to Central Asia
• P. orientalis Kulczyński, 1913 — Mediterranean
• P. podilensis Patel & Reddy, 1990 — India
• P. quadrilineata (Lucas, 1838) — Canary Is., Madeira
• P. sublama Zhang, 2000 — China
• P. swamii Patel, 1987 — India

Pisaurina

Pisaurina

Pisaurina brevipes

Pisaurina Simon, 1898

• P. brevipes (Emerton, 1911) — USA, Canada
• P. dubia (Hentz, 1847) — USA
• P. mira (Walckenaer, 1837) (type) — USA, Canada
• P. undulata (Keyserling, 1887) — USA, Cuba

Polyboea

Polyboea Thorell, 1895

• P. vulpina Thorell, 1895 (type) — India, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore
• P. zonaformis (Wang, 1993) — India, China, Laos

Q

Qianlingula

Qianlingula Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004

• Q. bilamellata Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004 (type) — China
• Q. jiafu Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004 — China
• Q. turbinata Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004 — China

R

Rothus

Rothus

Rothus purpurissatus

Rothus Simon, 1898

• R. aethiopicus (Pavesi, 1883) — Africa, Israel
• R. auratus Pocock, 1900 — South Africa
• R. vittatus Simon, 1898 — South Africa

S

Sphedanus

Sphedanus Thorell, 1877

• S. banna (Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004) — China, Laos
• S. quadrimaculatus (Thorell, 1897) — Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia (Borneo)
• S. undatus Thorell, 1877 (type) — Indonesia (Sulawesi)

Stoliczka

Stoliczka O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885

• S. affinis Caporiacco, 1935 — Pakistan
• S. insignis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 (type) — Pakistan

T

Tallonia

Tallonia Simon, 1889

• T. picta Simon, 1889 (type) — Madagascar

Tapinothele

Tapinothele Simon, 1898

• T. astuta Simon, 1898 (type) — Tanzania (Zanzibar)

Tapinothelella

Tapinothelella Strand, 1909

• T. laboriosa Strand, 1909 (type) — South Africa

Tapinothelops

Tapinothelops Roewer, 1955

• T. concolor (Caporiacco, 1947) (type) — East Africa
• T. vittipes (Caporiacco, 1941) — Ethiopia

Tetragonophthalma

Tetragonophthalma Karsch, 1878

• T. vulpina (Simon, 1898) — West, Central Africa

Thalassiopsis

Thalassiopsis Roewer, 1955

• T. vachoni Roewer, 1955 (type) — Madagascar

Thaumasia

Thaumasia Perty, 1833

• T. abrahami Mello-Leitão, 1948 — Honduras to Brazil
• T. acreana Silva & Carico, 2012 — Brazil
• T. annulipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 — Suriname, Peru, Brazil
• T. argenteonotata (Simon, 1898) — Mexico to Brazil
• T. caracarai Silva & Carico, 2012 — Mexico to Brazil
• T. caxiuana Silva & Carico, 2012 — Brazil
• T. diasi Silva & Carico, 2012 — Ecuador, Brazil
• T. heterogyna Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 — Panama to Brazil
• T. hirsutochela Silva & Carico, 2012 — Costa Rica to Brazil
• T. lisei Silva & Carico, 2012 — Brazil
• T. onca Silva & Carico, 2012 — Colombia to Brazil
• T. oriximina Silva & Carico, 2012 — Brazil
• T. peruana Silva & Carico, 2012 — Peru
• T. scoparia (Simon, 1888) — Venezuela
• T. senilis Perty, 1833 (type) — Costa Rica to Paraguay
• T. velox Simon, 1898 — Panama to Argentina
• T. xingu Silva & Carico, 2012 — Colombia to Brazil

Tinus

Tinus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901

• T. arindamai Biswas & Roy, 2005 — India
• T. connexus (Bryant, 1940) — Cuba, Hispaniola
• T. minutus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 — Mexico to El Salvador
• T. nigrinus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 (type) — Mexico to Costa Rica
• T. oaxaca Carico, 2008 — Mexico
• T. palictlus Carico, 1976 — Mexico
• T. peregrinus (Bishop, 1924) — USA, Mexico
• T. prusius Carico, 1976 — Mexico
• T. schlingeri Silva, 2012 — Mexico
• T. tibialis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 — Mexico
• T. ursus Carico, 1976 — Costa Rica, Panama

Tolma

Tolma Jocqué, 1994

• T. toreuta Jocqué, 1994 (type) — Madagascar

V

Voraptipus

Voraptipus Roewer, 1955

• V. agilis Roewer, 1955 (type) — Mozambique

Vuattouxia

Vuattouxia Blandin, 1979

• V. kouassikonani Blandin, 1979 (type) — Ivory Coast

W

Walrencea

Walrencea Blandin, 1979

• W. globosa Blandin, 1979 (type) — South Africa