Available online xxxx Communicated by Louis Rowen MSC: 16W55 17A70 17C70 Keywords: Associative superalgebras Semiprime superalgebras Superinvolutions Skewsymmetric elements Lie structureIn this paper we investigate the Lie structure of the derived Lie superalgebra [K, K], with K the set of skew elements of a semiprime associative superalgebra A with superinvolution. We show that if U is a Lie ideal of [K, K], then either there exists an ideal J of A such that the Lie ideal [J ∩ K, K] is nonzero and contained in U , or A is a subdirect sum of A , A , where the image of U in A is central, and A is a subdirect product of orders in simple superalgebras, each at most 16-dimensional over its center.