Corinnidae

Belongs within: Dionycha.

The Corinnidae are a group of actively hunting spiders commonly found among leaf litter (Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman 2007). Male palps lack a median apophysis on the copulatory bulb while females have the epigynum lobes fused into an undivided plate (Ramírez 2014).

Synapomorphies (from Ramírez 2014): Tarsal cuticle texture smooth; distal plate of trichobothria with distal ridge continuous in a closed alveolus; dorsal scutum present on male abdomen; embolus attachment fixed; median apophysis absent; epigynum lobes forming an undivided plate with suture not visible.

<==Corinnidae [Myrmeciidae]JD-S07
    |  i. s.: ArushinaR14
    |         CycaisR14
    |         ScortecciaR14
    |         ChemmisommaP92
    |--+--Messapus natalisWC17
    |  `--CorinninaeWC17
    |       |  i. s.: Abapeba rioclaro Bonaldo 2000FM11
    |       |         AttacobiusR14
    |       |         EcitocobiusR14
    |       |         ErendiraR14
    |       |         MegalostrataR14
    |       |         MethesisR14
    |       |         ParachemmisR14
    |       |         SeptentrinnaR14
    |       |         SimonestusR14
    |       |         StethorrhagusR14
    |       |         TapixauaR14
    |       |         TupirinnaR14
    |       |         XeropigoR14
    |       |           |--X. camilae De Souza & Bonaldo 2007FM11
    |       |           `--X. tridentiger (Pickard-Cambridge 1869)FM11
    |       |--Creugas gulosusR14
    |       `--+--Falconina gracilis (Keyserling 1891)WC17, FM11
    |          `--+--ParadiestusWC17
    |             |    |--P. giganteus (Karsch 1880)FM11
    |             |    `--P. penicillatusR14
    |             `--Corinna Koch 1841WC17, JD-S07
    |                  |--C. brunneipeltula Strand 1910S10
    |                  |--C. bulbulaR14
    |                  |--C. capito (Lucas 1856)FM11
    |                  |--C. duckeR14
    |                  |--C. natalisR14
    |                  `--C. nitensR14
    `--+--Allomedmass maeWC17
       `--CastianeirinaeWC17
            |  i. s.: CastanillaR14
            |         CoenoptychusR14
            |         HumuaR14
            |         MazaxR14
            |         MereniusR14
            |         PoeciliptaR14
            |         PranburiaR14
            |         PsellocoptusR14
            |         Supunna Simon 1897R14, PVD10
            |           |--S. funerea Simon 1896PVD10
            |           `--S. picta (Koch 1873)PVD10
            |         Medmassa semiaurantiacaR14
            |--+--Serendib volansWC17
            |  `--+--MyrmeciumWC17
            |     `--+--MyrmecotypusWC17
            |        `--CastianeiraWC17
            |             |--C. descriptaR14
            |             |--C. longipalpaR14
            |             `--C. trilineataR14
            `--+--+--Aetius nocturnusWC17
               |  `--+--Nyssus coloripesWC17
               |     `--Corinnomma severumWC17
               `--+--Copa flavoplumosaWC17, R14
                  `--+--+--SphecotypusWC17
                     |  `--Apochinomma formicaeformeWC17
                     `--+--+--Cambalida fulvipesWC17
                        |  `--Echinax longespinaWC17
                        |--Castoponera ciliataWC17
                        `--Graptartia tropicalisWC17

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[FM11] Freire-Jr, G. de B., & P. C. Motta. 2011. Effects of experimental fire regimes on the abundance and diversity of cursorial arachnids of Brazilian savannah (cerrado biome). Journal of Arachnology 39 (2): 263–272.

[JD-S07] Jocqué, R., & A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman. 2007. Spider Families of the World. Royal Museum for Central Africa: Tervuren (Belgium).

[PVD10] Paquin, P., C. J. Vink & N. Dupérré. 2010. Spiders of New Zealand: annotated family key and species list. Manaaki Whenua Press: Lincoln (New Zealand).

[P92] Poinar, G. O., Jr. 1992. Life in Amber. Stanford University Press: Stanford.

[R14] Ramírez, M. J. 2014. The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 390: 1–374.

[S10] Strand, E. 1910. Spinnentiere aus Neuguinea (Opiliones, Psechridae und Clubionidae) gesammelt von Dr. Schlaginhaufen. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königl. Zoologischen und Anthropologisch-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden 13 (5): 1–16.

[WC17] Wheeler, W. C., J. A. Coddington, L. M. Crowley, D. Dimitrov, P. A. Goloboff, C. E. Griswold, G. Hormiga, L. Prendini, M. J. Ramírez, P. Sierwald, L. Almeida-Silva, F. Alvarez-Padilla, M. A. Arnedo, L. R. Benavides Silva, S. P. Benjamin, J. E. Bond, C. J. Grismado, E. Hasan, M. Hedin, M. A. Izquierdo, F. M. Labarque, J. Ledford, L. Lopardo, W. P. Maddison, J. A. Miller, L. N. Piacentini, N. I. Platnick, D. Polotow, D. Silva-Dávila, N. Scharff, T. Szűts, D. Ubick, C. J. Vink, H. M. Wood & J. Zhang. 2017. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics 33: 574–616.