World Spider Catalog

Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

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.

In synonymy:

Lyssorthrus Roewer, 1938 = Aruana Strand, 1911 (Wanless, 1988: 166)

Gen. Aruana Strand, 1911 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02824

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Lyssorthrus Roewer, 1938: 76 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05768] (type L. vanstraeleni Roewer, 1938) by Wanless, 1988: 166.

Aruana silvicola Strand, 1911 | | Indonesia (Aru Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032322

Aruana silvicola Strand, 1911d: 178, pl. 4, f. 29, pl. 6, f. 92 (Dm) Original description

Aruana silvicola Prószyński, 1984a: 2 (m)

Aruana silvicola Wanless, 1988: 169, f. 43A-G (m)

Aruana vanstraeleni (Roewer, 1938) | | Papua New Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032323

Lyssorthrus vanstraeleni Roewer, 1938: 76, f. 51-54 (Dm) Original description

Aruana vanstraeleni Wanless, 1988: 169, f. 44A-H (m)