Simaetha Thorell 1881

GenusSimaethaThorell, 1881 Type species. Simaetha thoracica Thorell, 1881; type locality Australia. Comments. The genus was assigned by Maddison (2015) in the subtribe Simaethina Simon, 1903 within the tribe Viciriini Simon, 1901, and is represented by 23 nominal species, mainly distributed from South Asia to Australia (WSC 2024). Although a detailed revision of Oceanian species has been done by Żabka (1994), the genus remains poorly studied because nearly half (11) of the species are known only from a single sex, and four species cannot be precisely identified due to lack of diagnostic drawings (WSC 2024).