World Spider Catalog

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: Considered a senior synonym of Lyssomanidae by Galiano, 1976b: 67; for illustrations of scale morphology of about 60 species, see Hill, 1979; for a database with diagnostic drawings maintained by J. Prószyński, see: http://www.peckhamia.com/salticidae; for the phylogeny within the family see Maddison & Hedin, 2003b, Maddison, 2015, Maddison et al., 2017 and Prószyński, 2017b.

Gen. Alfenus Simon, 1902 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02807

Transferred to other genera:

Alfenus aurantius Mello-Leitão, 1945 -- see Chira

Alfenus calamistratus Simon, 1902 | | Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032271

Alfenus calamistratus Simon, 1902a: 411 (Dm) Original description

Alfenus calamistratus Simon, 1903a: 739, f. 868-869

Alfenus calamistratus Szűts & Scharff, 2005: 359, f. 1A, C, 2A-F, 3A-D (m)

Alfenus calamistratus Prószyński, 2017b: 107, f. 47E, 48M (m)

Alfenus chrysophaeus Simon, 1903 | | Equatorial Guinea or Cameroon urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032272

Alfenus chrysophaeus Simon, 1903a: 722, f. 870

Alfenus chrysophaeus Simon, 1903e: 112 (Dm) Original description

Alfenus chrysophaeus Szűts & Scharff, 2005: 361, f. 1B, 2G-H, 3E-G (m)