taxonID	type	description	language	source
03E787EFA504FFEB336AC87A78A4056A.taxon	description	We use a well-sampled and robust phylogenomic backbone to support the resurrection of Dolomedidae, Lehtinen's (1967) taxonomic hypothesis that has regained recent attention (Albo et al., 2017; Hazzi & Hormiga, 2023; Kulkarni et al., 2023). Our phylogenies are consistent with the topologies found by Hazzi and Hormiga (2023) and Kulkarni et al. (2023) that Dolomedes is sister to the clade including Lycosidae, Trechaleidae, and additionally Blandinia. Although several putatively closely related genera of Dolomedes, including Bradystichus Simon, 1884, Caledomedes Raven & Hebron, 2018, Mangromedes Raven & Hebron, 2018, and Tasmomedes Raven & Hebron, 2018, were not available for inclusion with UCE data, additional evidence from morphological (Platnick & Forster, 1993; Raven & Hebron, 2018) and molecular (Kulkarni et al., 2023; Piacentini & Ramírez, 2019) studies both suggest that these genera fit our definition of Dolomedidae rather than Pisauridae. This updated classification of Dolomedidae is formalized in the Taxonomy as it fulfils our classification criteria: Dolomedidae is monophyletic, is well diagnosable, and shows divergences comparable with clade ages of the other families represented in the phylogeny (Figure 4).	en	Yu, Kuang-Ping, Cheng, Ren-Chung, Haddad, Charles R., Tanikawa, Akio, Pett, Brogan L., Piacentini, Luis N., Yip, Ho Yin, Suzuki, Yuya, Henrard, Arnaud, Painting, Christina J., Vink, Cor J., Hebets, Eileen A., Harvey, Mark S., Kuntner, Matjaž (2025): Systematics and evolutionary history of raft and nursery-web spiders (Araneae: Dolomedidae and Pisauridae). Zoologica Scripta 54 (3): 421-435, DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12719, URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12719
03E787EFA508FFE93022CF847B2C0728.taxon	description	(Raft spiders)	en	Yu, Kuang-Ping, Cheng, Ren-Chung, Haddad, Charles R., Tanikawa, Akio, Pett, Brogan L., Piacentini, Luis N., Yip, Ho Yin, Suzuki, Yuya, Henrard, Arnaud, Painting, Christina J., Vink, Cor J., Hebets, Eileen A., Harvey, Mark S., Kuntner, Matjaž (2025): Systematics and evolutionary history of raft and nursery-web spiders (Araneae: Dolomedidae and Pisauridae). Zoologica Scripta 54 (3): 421-435, DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12719, URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12719
03E787EFA508FFE93022CF847B2C0728.taxon	discussion	Remark: Based on our phylogeny (Figure 3), Pisauridae should be delimited to exclude the genera in Dolomedidae (above) as well as Blandinia.	en	Yu, Kuang-Ping, Cheng, Ren-Chung, Haddad, Charles R., Tanikawa, Akio, Pett, Brogan L., Piacentini, Luis N., Yip, Ho Yin, Suzuki, Yuya, Henrard, Arnaud, Painting, Christina J., Vink, Cor J., Hebets, Eileen A., Harvey, Mark S., Kuntner, Matjaž (2025): Systematics and evolutionary history of raft and nursery-web spiders (Araneae: Dolomedidae and Pisauridae). Zoologica Scripta 54 (3): 421-435, DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12719, URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12719
