ZOROPSIDAE BERTKAU, 1882

Type genus Zoropsis Simon, 1878: 327 (Type species by monotypy: Dolomedes spinimanus Dufour, 1820)

Diagnosis. Zoropsidae are consistently supported by molecular data (Polotow et al. 2015) as well as by three homoplastic morphological synapomorphies on the male palp: presence of a type 2 ventral tibial process, a rounded to oval cymbium and a cymbial retrolateral process. Chinja has the last two of these synapomorphies (Figs 3A, C, 4A, C, 7B, C, 8F).

Composition. The living Zoropsidae include 26 genera and 180 species (World Spider Catalog 2018). Wunderlich (2017) recognizes four genera and 16 Palaeogene, extinct species from Bitterfeld and Baltic amber.

Distribution. Worldwide.