Published October 27, 2023 | Version v1
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Desidae Pocock 1895

  • 1. Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA,
  • 2. Biology Department, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ 07470, USA,
  • 3. Systematic Zoology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1 - 1 Minami- Osawa, Hachioji-shi, 192 - 0397 Tokyo, Japan,
  • 4. Independent Researcher, Calliope International Produção Cultural, Americana, São Paulo 13471 - 600, Brazil Corresponding author, mail: jgorneau @ calacademy. org

Description

Family Desidae Pocock, 1895 (new circumscription)

Type genus: Desis Walckenaer, 1837 (type species: Desis dysderoides Walckenaer, 1837; syn. of Desis maxillosa (Fabricius, 1793)).

Diagnosis. Following Wheeler et al. (2017), representatives of Desidae have 3 claws, tarsal trichobothria, and also comprise cribellate or ecribellate genera. Additionally, the palpal tibia of the male can have a complex RTA (e.g., Matachiinae with multiple, separate processes; Metaltellinae and Amphinectinae [in part] with distal and proximal processes).

Composition. Current circumscription in Wheeler et al. (2017), less Forsterina and Taurongia (transferred to Stiphidiidae), and with the inclusion of the Cedicinae Marusik, Zonstein & Koponen, 2023 to include 3 genera previously included in Cybaeidae (Cedicus Simon, 1875, Cedicoides Charitonov, 1946, Paracedicus Fet, 1993).

Notes

Published as part of Gorneau, Jacob A., Crews, Sarah C., Cala-Riquelme, Franklyn, Montana, Katherine O., Spagna, Joseph C., Ballarin, Francesco, Almeida-Silva, Lina M. & Esposito, Lauren A., 2023, Webs of intrigue: museum genomics elucidate relationships of the marronoid spider clade (Araneae), pp. 1-18 in Insect Systematics and Diversity 7 (5) on page 10, DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixad021, http://zenodo.org/record/10942685

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  • Remarks. See Wheeler et al. (2017).