Miopsalis Thorell, 1890

Miopsalis Thorell, 1890: 381; Hansen and Sørensen 1904: 99; Roewer, 1923: 47 –48, fig. 50; Roewer, 1926: 263; Shear, 1979: 356 –357; Giribet 2000: 72 (as nomen dubium); Clouse & Giribet (in press) (validated).

Type species: Miopsalis pulicaria Thorell, 1890, by monotypy.

Other species included: Miopsalis collinsi (Shear, 1993), Miopsalis globosa (Schwendinger & Giribet, 2004) new comb., Miopsalis gryllospeca (Shear, 1993), Miopsalis kinabalu (Shear, 1993) new comb., Miopsalis leakeyi (Shear, 1993) new comb., Miopsalis lionota (Pocock, 1897), Miopsalis mulu (Shear, 1993) new comb., Miopsalis pocockii (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) new comb., Miopsalis sabah (Shear, 1993), Miopsalis silhavyi (Rambla, 1991), Miopsalis tarumpitao (Shear, 1993) .

Description: Leptopsalinae, with the following: anal gland pores usually present; chelicerae often with extensive granulations on the second article; Rambla’s organ sometimes present in large species; prosoma often relatively long; ventral prosomal complex usually large, with fourth coxae meeting for a length longer than the gonostome, distinct sternum present, and second coxae broadly meeting; body profile variable, but often flat in species of various sizes; sternal opisthosomal sulci between sternites 3 and 4, 4 and 5, and 5 and 6 often straight, parallel; posterior gonostome usually straight or weakly concave.

Distribution: Mostly Borneo and to a lesser extent Peninsula Malaysia, central Sumatra, and the Philippine islands of Palawan and Mindanao.