Leptopsalis Thorell, 1882

Leptopsalis Thorell, 1882: 23 –24; Karsch 1884: 145; Thorell 1890: 106 (as junior synonym of Stylocellus Westwood, 1874); Giribet 2000: 68 (as junior synonym of Stylocellus Westwood, 1874); Clouse and Giribet (in press) (restored).

Type species: Leptopsalis beccarii Thorell, 1882, by monotypy.

Other species included: Leptopsalis dumoga (Shear, 1993), Leptopsalis hillyardi (Shear, 1993), Leptopsalis javana (Thorell, 1882), Leptopsalis laevichelis (Roewer, 1942) new comb., Leptopsalis lydekkeri (Clouse & Giribet, 2007), Leptopsalis modesta (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904), Leptopsalis novaguinea (Clouse & Giribet, 2007), Leptopsalis pangrango (Shear, 1993) new comb., Leptopsalis ramblae (Giribet, 2002), Leptopsalis sedgwicki (Shear, 1979) new comb., Leptopsalis sulcata (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904), Leptopsalis tambusisi (Shear, 1993), Leptopsalis thorellii (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904), Leptopsalis weberii (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904)

Description: Leptopsalinae, with the following: eyes distinct and often large; anal gland pores almost always absent; granulations on second cheliceral article usually highly reduced; Rambla’s organ absent; prosoma almost always compact, not elongate; ventral prosomal complex usually highly compressed; sternum usually indistinct; body profile usually deep, dorsal scutum usually arched; sternal opisthosomal sulci between sternites 3 and 4, 4 and 5, and 5 and 6 usually curved, anterior medial sulci often indistinct; posterior gonostome often deeply concave.

Distribution: Central Thailand and south down the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, western New Guinea, and, to a small extent Borneo.