Orsolobidae

Orsolobidae
Male Azanialobus lawrencei
Tasmanoonops sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Orsolobidae Cooke, 1965
Diversity
30 genera, 190 species
blue: reported countries (WSC)

Orsolobidae is a six-eyed spider family with about 200 described species in thirty genera. It was first described by J. A. L. Cooke in 1965, and was raised to family status from "Dysderidae" in 1985. ^[1]

Distribution

Most genera are endemic to New Zealand and the Australian region, but several genera occur in southern Africa ^[2] and South America. ^{[3] [4]}

Genera

• 
  Duripelta sp.

As of January 2026 ^[update] , this family includes thirty genera and 190 species: ^[5]

• Afrilobus Griswold & Platnick, 1987 – Malawi, South Africa
• Anopsolobus Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Ascuta Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
• Australobus Forster & Platnick, 1985 – Australia
• Azanialobus Griswold & Platnick, 1987 – Lesotho, South Africa
• Basibulbus Ott, Platnick, Berniker & Bonaldo, 2013 – Chile
• Bealeyia Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Calculus Purcell, 1910 – South Africa
• Chileolobus Forster & Platnick, 1985 – Chile
• Cornifalx Hickman, 1979 – Australia
• Dugdalea Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Duripelta Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
• Falklandia Forster & Platnick, 1985 – Falkland Islands
• Hickmanolobus Forster & Platnick, 1985 – Australia
• Losdolobus Platnick & Brescovit, 1994 – Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay
• Mallecolobus Forster & Platnick, 1985 – Chile
• Maoriata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Orongia Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Orsolobus Simon, 1893 – Argentina, Chile
• Osornolobus Forster & Platnick, 1985 – Chile, Falkland Islands
• Paralobus Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Pounamuella Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Subantarctia Forster, 1955 – New Zealand
• Tangata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tasmanoonops Hickman, 1930 – Australia
• Tautukua Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Turretia Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Waiporia Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Wiltonia Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand

References

1. Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1985). "A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 181.
2. Griswold, C.E.; Platnick, N.I. (1987). "On the first African spiders of the family Orsolobidae (Araneae, Dysderoidea)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (2892).
3. Platnick, N.I.; Brescovit, A.D. (1994). "A new genus of the spider family Orsolobidae (Araneae, Dysderoidea) from Brazil" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (3112).
4. Chousou-Polydouri, Natalia; Carmichael, Anthea; Szűts, Tamás; Saucedo, Alma; Gillespie, Rosemary; Griswold, Charles; Wood, Hannah M. (February 2019). "The biogeography of the spider family Orsolobidae (Araneae, Dysderoidea) on Wiley Online Library" . Journal of Biogeography. 46 (2): 332–342. doi:10.1111/jbi.13487. S2CID   92283671.
5. "Family: Orsolobidae Cooke, 1965". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-09.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Orsolobidae at iNaturalist