List of Desidae species

As of May 2018, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following species in the family Desidae.

Akatorea

Akatorea Forster & Wilton, 1973

• Akatorea gracilis (Marples, 1959) (type species) – New Zealand
• Akatorea otagoensis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand

Amphinecta

Amphinecta Simon, 1898

• Amphinecta decemmaculata Simon, 1898 (type species) – New Zealand
• Amphinecta dejecta Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Amphinecta luta Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Amphinecta mara Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Amphinecta milina Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Amphinecta mula Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Amphinecta pika Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Amphinecta pila Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Amphinecta puka Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Amphinecta tama Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Amphinecta tula Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand

Austmusia

Austmusia Gray, 1983

• Austmusia kioloa Gray, 1983 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Austmusia lindi Gray, 1983 – Australia (Victoria)
• Austmusia wilsoni Gray, 1983 (type species) – Australia (New South Wales)

Badumna

Badumna Thorell, 1890

• Badumna arguta (Simon, 1906) – Australia (Queensland)
• Badumna bimetallica (Hogg, 1896) – Central Australia
• Badumna blochmanni (Strand, 1907) – Australia (New South Wales)
• Badumna exilis Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia (Java)
• Badumna exsiccata (Strand, 1913) – Australia
• Badumna guttipes (Simon, 1906) – Australia (Victoria, Tasmania)
• Badumna hirsuta Thorell, 1890 (type species) – Indonesia (Java)
• Badumna hygrophila (Simon, 1902) – Australia (Queensland)
• Badumna insignis (L. Koch, 1872) – Australia. Introducded to Japan, New Zealand
• Badumna javana (Strand, 1907) – Indonesia (Java)
• Badumna longinqua (L. Koch, 1867) – Eastern Australia. Introduced to USA, Mexico, Uruguay, Japan, New Zealand
• Badumna maculata (Rainbow, 1916) – Australia (Queensland)
• Badumna microps (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
• Badumna pilosa (Hogg, 1900) – Australia (Victoria)
• Badumna scalaris (L. Koch, 1872) – Australia (Queensland, central Australia)
• Badumna senilella (Strand, 1907) – Australia
• Badumna socialis (Rainbow, 1905) – Australia (New South Wales)
• Badumna tangae Zhu, Zhang & Yang, 2006 – China

Baiami

Baiami Lehtinen, 1967

• Baiami brockmani Gray, 1981 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Baiami glenelgi Gray, 1981 – Australia (Victoria)
• Baiami loftyensis Gray, 1981 – Australia (South Australia)
• Baiami montana Gray, 1981 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Baiami stirlingi Gray, 1981 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Baiami storeniformis (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
• Baiami tegenarioides (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
• Baiami torbayensis Gray, 1981 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Baiami volucripes (Simon, 1908) (type species) – Australia (Western Australia)

Bakala

Bakala Davies, 1990

• Bakala episinoides Davies, 1990 (type species) – Australia (Queensland)

Barahna

Barahna Davies, 2003

• Barahna booloumba Davies, 2003 (type species) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Barahna brooyar Davies, 2003 – Australia (Queensland)
• Barahna glenelg Davies, 2003 – Australia (Victoria)
• Barahna myall Davies, 2003 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Barahna scoria Davies, 2003 – Australia (Queensland)
• Barahna taroom Davies, 2003 – Australia (Queensland)
• Barahna toonumbar Davies, 2003 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Barahna yeppoon Davies, 2003 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)

Buyina

Buyina Davies, 1998

• Buyina halifax Davies, 1998 (type species) – Australia (Queensland)
• Buyina yeatesi Davies, 1998 – Australia (Queensland)

Calacadia

Calacadia Exline, 1960

• Calacadia ambigua (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
• Calacadia chilensis Exline, 1960 (type species) – Chile
• Calacadia dentifera (Tullgren, 1902) – Chile
• Calacadia livens (Simon, 1902) – Chile
• Calacadia osorno Exline, 1960 – Chile
• Calacadia radulifera (Simon, 1902) – Chile
• Calacadia rossi Exline, 1960 – Chile

Cambridgea

Cambridgea L. Koch, 1872

• Cambridgea agrestis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea annulata Dalmas, 1917 – New Zealand (Chatham Is.)
• Cambridgea antipodiana (White, 1849) (type species) – New Zealand
• Cambridgea arboricola (Urquhart, 1891) – New Zealand
• Cambridgea australis Blest & Vink, 2000 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea decorata Blest & Vink, 2000 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea elegans Blest & Vink, 2000 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea elongata Blest & Vink, 2000 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea fasciata L. Koch, 1872 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea foliata (L. Koch, 1872) – New Zealand
• Cambridgea inaequalis Blest & Vink, 2000 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea insulana Blest & Vink, 2000 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea longipes Blest & Vink, 2000 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea mercurialis Blest & Vink, 2000 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea obscura Blest & Vink, 2000 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea occidentalis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea ordishi Blest & Vink, 2000 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea pallidula Blest & Vink, 2000 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea peculiaris Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea peelensis Blest & Vink, 2000 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea plagiata Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea quadromaculata Blest & Taylor, 1995 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea ramsayi Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea reinga Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea secunda Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea simoni Berland, 1924 – New Caledonia
• Cambridgea solanderensis Blest & Vink, 2000 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea sylvatica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea tuiae Blest & Vink, 2000 – New Zealand
• Cambridgea turbotti Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand

Canala

Canala Gray, 1992

• Canala magna (Berland, 1924) (type species) – New Caledonia
• Canala poya Gray, 1992 – New Caledonia

Cicirra

Cicirra Simon, 1886

Colcarteria

Colcarteria Gray, 1992

• Colcarteria carrai Gray, 1992 (type species) – Australia (New South Wales)
• Colcarteria kempseyi Gray, 1992 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Colcarteria yessabah Gray, 1992 – Australia (New South Wales)

Corasoides

Corasoides Butler, 1929

• Corasoides angusi Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
• Corasoides cowanae Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
• Corasoides motumae Humphrey, 2017 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Corasoides mouldsi Humphrey, 2017 – Australia (Queensland)
• Corasoides nebula Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
• Corasoides nimbus Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
• Corasoides stellaris Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
• Corasoides terania Humphrey, 2017 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)

Cunnawarra

Cunnawarra Davies, 1998

• Cunnawarra cassisi Davies, 1998 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Cunnawarra grayi Davies, 1998 (type species) – Australia (New South Wales)

Desis

Desis Walckenaer, 1837

• Desis bobmarleyi Baehr, Raven & Harms, 2017 – Australia (Queensland)
• Desis crosslandi Pocock, 1903 – Tanzania (Zanzibar), Madagascar
• Desis formidabilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891) – South Africa
• Desis galapagoensis Hirst, 1925 – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
• Desis gardineri Pocock, 1904 – India (Laccadive Is.)
• Desis inermis Gravely, 1927 – India
• Desis japonica Yaginuma, 1956 – Japan
• Desis kenyonae Pocock, 1902 – Australia (Victoria, Tasmania)
• Desis marina (Hector, 1877) – New Caledonia, New Zealand (mainland, Chatham Is.)
• Desis martensi L. Koch, 1872 – Malaysia
• Desis maxillosa (Fabricius, 1793) (type species) – New Guinea, New Caledonia
• Desis risbeci Berland, 1931 – New Caledonia
• Desis tangana Roewer, 1955 – East Africa
• Desis vorax L. Koch, 1872 – Samoa

Dunstanoides

Dunstanoides Forster & Wilton, 1989

• Dunstanoides angustiae (Marples, 1959) – New Zealand
• Dunstanoides hesperis (Forster & Wilton, 1973) (type species) – New Zealand
• Dunstanoides hinawa (Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand
• Dunstanoides hova (Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand
• Dunstanoides kochi (Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand
• Dunstanoides mira (Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand
• Dunstanoides nuntia (Marples, 1959) – New Zealand
• Dunstanoides salmoni (Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand

Epimecinus

Epimecinus Simon, 1908

• Epimecinus alkirna Gray, 1973 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Epimecinus humilis Berland, 1924 – New Caledonia
• Epimecinus nexibilis (Simon, 1906) (type species) – New Caledonia
• Epimecinus pullatus (Simon, 1906) – New Caledonia

Forsterina

Forsterina Lehtinen, 1967

• Forsterina alticola (Berland, 1924) – New Caledonia
• Forsterina annulipes (L. Koch, 1872) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Lord Howe Is.)
• Forsterina armigera (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
• Forsterina cryphoeciformis (Simon, 1908) (type species) – Australia (Western Australia)
• Forsterina koghiana Gray, 1992 – New Caledonia
• Forsterina segestrina (L. Koch, 1872) – Australia (New South Wales)
• Forsterina velifera (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
• Forsterina virgosa (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
• Forsterina vultuosa (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)

Goyenia

Goyenia Forster, 1970

• Goyenia electa Forster, 1970 (type species) – New Zealand
• Goyenia fresa Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Goyenia gratiosa Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Goyenia lucrosa Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Goyenia marplesi Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Goyenia multidentata Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Goyenia ornata Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Goyenia sana Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Goyenia scitula Forster, 1970 – New Zealand

Helsonia

Helsonia Forster, 1970

• Helsonia plata Forster, 1970 (type species) – New Zealand

Holomamoea

Holomamoea Forster & Wilton, 1973

• Holomamoea foveata Forster & Wilton, 1973 (type species) – New Zealand

Huara

Huara Forster, 1964

• Huara antarctica (Berland, 1931) (type species) – New Zealand (Auckland Is.)
• Huara chapmanae Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Huara dolosa Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Huara grossa Forster, 1964 – New Zealand (Auckland Is.)
• Huara hastata Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Huara inflata Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Huara kikkawa Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Huara mura Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Huara ovalis (Hogg, 1909) – New Zealand (Snares Is.)
• Huara pudica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand

Ischalea

Ischalea L. Koch, 1872

• Ischalea incerta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – Madagascar
• Ischalea longiceps Simon, 1898 – Mauritius
• Ischalea spinipes L. Koch, 1872 (type species) – New Zealand

Jalkaraburra

Jalkaraburra Davies, 1998

• Jalkaraburra alta Davies, 1998 (type species) – Australia (Queensland)

Keera

Keera Davies, 1998

• Keera longipalpis Davies, 1998 (type species) – Australia (New South Wales)

Lathyarcha

Lathyarcha Simon, 1908

• Lathyarcha cinctipes (Simon, 1906) – Australia (Victoria)
• Lathyarcha inornata (L. Koch, 1872) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Lathyarcha tetrica Simon, 1908 (type species) – Australia (Western Australia)

Magua

Magua Davies, 1998

• Magua wiangaree Davies, 1998 (type species) – Australia (New South Wales)

Makora

Makora Forster & Wilton, 1973

• Makora calypso (Marples, 1959) – New Zealand
• Makora detrita Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Makora diversa Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Makora figurata Forster & Wilton, 1973 (type species) – New Zealand
• Makora mimica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand

Mamoea

Mamoea Forster & Wilton, 1973

• Mamoea assimilis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea bicolor (Bryant, 1935) – New Zealand
• Mamoea cantuaria Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea cooki Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea florae Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea grandiosa Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea hughsoni Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea mandibularis (Bryant, 1935) – New Zealand
• Mamoea maorica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea monticola Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea otira Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea rakiura Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea rufa (Berland, 1931) (type species) – New Zealand (Campbell Is.)
• Mamoea unica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea westlandica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand

Mangareia

Mangareia Forster, 1970

• Mangareia motu Forster, 1970 – New Zealand

Maniho

Maniho Marples, 1959

• Maniho cantuarius Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Maniho centralis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Maniho insulanus Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Maniho meridionalis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Maniho ngaitahu Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Maniho pumilio Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Maniho tigris Marples, 1959 (type species) – New Zealand
• Maniho vulgaris Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand

Manjala

Manjala Davies, 1990

• Manjala pallida Davies, 1990 – Australia (Queensland)
• Manjala plana Davies, 1990 (type species) – Australia (Queensland)
• Manjala spinosa Davies, 1990 – Australia (Queensland)

Matachia

Matachia Dalmas, 1917

• Matachia livor (Urquhart, 1893) – New Zealand
• Matachia ramulicola Dalmas, 1917 (type species) – New Zealand
• Matachia similis Forster, 1970 – New Zealand

Mesudus

Mesudus Özdikmen, 2007

• Mesudus frondosus (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
• Mesudus setosus (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
• Mesudus solitarius (Forster, 1970) (type species) – New Zealand

Metaltella

Metaltella Mello-Leitão, 1931

• Metaltella arcoiris (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Chile
• Metaltella iheringi (Keyserling, 1891) (type species) – Brazil, Argentina
• Metaltella imitans (Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Argentina
• Metaltella rorulenta (Nicolet, 1849) – Peru, Chile, Argentina
• Metaltella tigrina (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Argentina

Namandia

Namandia Lehtinen, 1967

• Namandia periscelis (Simon, 1903) (type species) – Australia (Tasmania)

Nanocambridgea

Nanocambridgea Forster & Wilton, 1973

• Nanocambridgea gracilipes Forster & Wilton, 1973 (type species) – New Zealand

Neororea

Neororea Forster & Wilton, 1973

• Neororea homerica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Neororea sorenseni (Forster, 1955) (type species) – New Zealand (Auckland Is.)

Notomatachia

Notomatachia Forster, 1970

• Notomatachia wiltoni Forster, 1970 – New Zealand

Nuisiana

Nuisiana Forster & Wilton, 1973

• Nuisiana arboris (Marples, 1959) (type species) – New Zealand

Oparara

Oparara Forster & Wilton, 1973

• Oparara karamea Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Oparara vallus (Marples, 1959) (type species) – New Zealand

Panoa

Panoa Forster, 1970

• Panoa contorta Forster, 1970 (type species) – New Zealand
• Panoa fiordensis Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Panoa mora Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Panoa tapanuiensis Forster, 1970 – New Zealand

Paramamoea

Paramamoea Forster & Wilton, 1973

• Paramamoea aquilonalis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Paramamoea arawa Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Paramamoea incertoides Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Paramamoea pandora Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Paramamoea paradisica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Paramamoea parva Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Paramamoea urewera Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Paramamoea waipoua Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand

Paramatachia

Paramatachia Dalmas, 1918

• Paramatachia ashtonensis Marples, 1962 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Paramatachia cataracta Marples, 1962 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Paramatachia media Marples, 1962 – Australia (Victoria)
• Paramatachia tubicola (Hickman, 1950) – Australia (South Australia, Tasmania)

Penaoola

Penaoola Davies, 1998

• Penaoola algida Davies, 1998 (type species) – Australia (South Australia)
• Penaoola madida Davies, 1998 – Australia (South Australia)

Phryganoporus

Phryganoporus Simon, 1908

• Phryganoporus candidus (L. Koch, 1872) (type species) – Australia (mainland, Norfolk Is.)
• Phryganoporus davidleei Gray, 2002 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia)
• Phryganoporus melanopygus Gray, 2002 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Phryganoporus nigrinus Simon, 1908 – Australia (Western Australia to Queensland)
• Phryganoporus vandiemeni (Gray, 1983) – Australia (Victoria, Tasmania)

Pitonga

Pitonga Davies, 1984

• Pitonga woolowa Davies, 1984 (type species) – Northern Australia

Poaka

Poaka Forster & Wilton, 1973

• Poaka graminicola Forster & Wilton, 1973 (type species) – New Zealand

Porteria

Porteria Simon, 1904

• Porteria albopunctata Simon, 1904 (type species) – Chile

Quemusia

Quemusia Davies, 1998

• Quemusia aquilonia Davies, 1998 (type species) – Australia (Queensland)
• Quemusia austrina Davies, 1998 – Australia (Queensland)
• Quemusia cordillera Davies, 1998 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Quemusia raveni Davies, 1998 – Australia (Queensland)

Rangitata

Rangitata Forster & Wilton, 1973

Rapua

Rapua Forster, 1970

Reinga

Reinga Forster & Wilton, 1973

• Reinga apica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Reinga aucklandensis (Marples, 1959) – New Zealand

Rorea

Rorea Forster & Wilton, 1973

Syrorisa

Syrorisa Simon, 1908

• Syrorisa misella (Simon, 1906) (type species) – New Caledonia, Australia (Western Australia)

Tanganoides

Tanganoides Davies, 2005

• Tanganoides acutus (Davies, 2003) – Australia (Tasmania)
• Tanganoides clarkei (Davies, 2003) – Australia (Tasmania)
• Tanganoides collinus (Davies, 2003) – Australia (Tasmania)
• Tanganoides greeni (Davies, 2003) (type species) – Australia (Tasmania)
• Tanganoides harveyi (Davies, 2003) – Australia (Victoria)
• Tanganoides mcpartlan (Davies, 2003) – Australia (Tasmania)

Taurongia

Taurongia Hogg, 1901

• Taurongia punctata (Hogg, 1900) (type species) – Australia (Victoria)

Tuakana

Tuakana Forster, 1970

• Tuakana mirada Forster, 1970 – New Zealand

Waterea

Waterea Forster & Wilton, 1973

• Waterea cornigera Forster & Wilton, 1973 (type species) – New Zealand