Dysderinae C.L. Koch, 1837, 1971

Zamani, Alireza, Marusik, Yuri M. & Szűts, Tamas, 2023, A survey of the spider genus Dysdera Latreille, 1804 (Araneae, Dysderidae) in Iran, with fourteen new species and notes on two fossil genera, ZooKeys 1146, pp. 43-86 : 43

Subfamily Dysderinae C.L. Koch, 1837

Diagnosis.

This subfamily can be diagnosed from other dysderids by the edge of sternum-labium joint ca. 2.5-3 × longer than the edge of the maxilla-sternum joint, all tarsi bearing claw tufts, posterior metatarsi bearing scopulae, and the spineless anterior tibiae and metatarsi. Furthermore, the bulb of dysderines does not bear a free embolus (with the exception of Harpactocrates Simon, 1914), and the posterior diverticulum of endogyne is large and wide ( Deeleman-Reinhold and Deeleman 1988; Le Peru 2011; Kunt et al. 2019).

Composition.

Around 360 species in 11 genera: Cryptoparachtes Dunin, 1992, Dysdera Latreille, 1804, Dysderella Dunin, 1992, Dysderocrates Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman, 1988, Harpactocrates , Hygrocrates Deeleman-Reinhold, 1988, Kut Kunt, Elverici, Yağmur & Özkütük, 2019, Parachtes Alicata, 1964, Rhodera Deeleman-Reinhold, 1989, Stalitochara Simon, 1913, and Tedia Simon, 1882. The position of Rhodera in Dysderinae is questionable (see Le Peru 2011).