identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03E787EFA504FFEB336AC87A78A4056A.text	03E787EFA504FFEB336AC87A78A4056A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dolomedidae Simon 1876	<div><p>4.1 | Dolomedidae: A step towards the redefinition of Pisauridae</p><p>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 &amp; 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 &amp; Hebron, 2018, Mangromedes Raven &amp; Hebron, 2018, and Tasmomedes Raven &amp; Hebron, 2018, were not available for inclusion with UCE data, additional evidence from morphological (Platnick &amp; Forster, 1993; Raven &amp; Hebron, 2018) and molecular (Kulkarni et al., 2023; Piacentini &amp; 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).</p><p>The Dolomedes paraphyly hinges on one species, D. karijini, that is recovered as the sister of Ornodolomedes . Considering it is morphologically and ecologically distinct from Ornodolomedes (see Raven &amp; Hebron, 2018), D. karijini could be resolved through an establishment of a new genus for this species group. Although we envision this solution being valid in the future, we refrain from doing so here due to our limited access to Australian species. Based on details of the genitalia, Raven and Hebron (2018) treated D. karijini in the D. albicomus L. Koch, 1867 group with Dolomedes species from Australia and New Caledonia. Considering the incomplete taxon sampling and the current ambiguity of species boundaries within Dolomedes (Tanikawa &amp; Miyashita, 2008; Vink &amp; Dupérré, 2010; Yu &amp; Kuntner, 2024), it is unclear whether the entire species group, or only D. karijini should be elevated to a new genus. This decision will await future integrative taxonomic work with more Australasian species.</p><p>Our taxonomy is only the first step towards a better definition of Pisauridae and its subfamilies. Although our phylogenies reject the classification of Blandinia as a pisaurid, it is unclear whether this monotypic genus can be assigned to another existing family. Considering the conflicting Trechaleidae phylogenies (see Hazzi &amp; Hormiga, 2023; Kulkarni et al., 2023; Piacentini &amp; Ramírez, 2019) and our limited access to many trechaleid lineages, placing Blandinia in Trechaleidae sensu lato would also be unfounded. We therefore avoid creating a new family and hence treat Blandinia as incertae sedis until further evidence becomes available. Our phylogeny also partially rejects the currently used pisaurid subfamilial classifications, Thaumasinae, Thalassinae, and Pisaurinae (Sierwald, 1990; Simon, 1898a), a problem that awaits more focused systematics and taxonomic efforts.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787EFA504FFEB336AC87A78A4056A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	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	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.text	03E787EFA508FFE93022CF847B2C0728.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dolomedidae Simon 1876	<div><p>Family Dolomedidae Simon, 1876, family rank resurrected</p><p>Bradystichidae Simon, 1884, new synonymy</p><p>(Raft spiders)</p><p>Genus Blandinia Tonini et al., 2016, incertae sedis</p><p>Family Pisauridae Simon, 1890</p><p>Remark:</p><p>Based on our phylogeny (Figure 3), Pisauridae should be delimited to exclude the genera in Dolomedidae (above) as well as Blandinia .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787EFA508FFE93022CF847B2C0728	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	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	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
