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. Ascyltus Karsch, 1878 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02827

Transferred to other genera:

Ascyltus asper (Karsch, 1878) -- see Cytaea

Ascyltus senex (Simon, 1885) -- see Cytaea

In synonymy:

Ascyltus simplex Karsch, 1878 = Ascyltus divinus Karsch, 1878 (Żabka, 1988: 424)

Ascyltus audax (Rainbow, 1897) | | Tuvalu (Funafuti) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032333

Hyllus audax Rainbow, 1897a: 124, pl. 5, f. 4 (Df) Original description

Ascyltus audax Simon, 1903a: 815 (T omitted by Roewer)

Ascyltus divinus Karsch, 1878 | | Australia (Queensland), Fiji urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032334

Ascyltus divinus Karsch, 1878d: 30 (Df) Original description

Ascyltus simplex Karsch, 1878d: 31 (Dm)

Ascyltus divinus Żabka, 1988: 424, f. 1-9 (f, Sm)

Ascyltus divinus Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997: 112, f. 3, 14, 17-20 (mf)

Ascyltus ferox (Rainbow, 1897) | | Tuvalu (Funafuti) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032335

Hyllus ferox Rainbow, 1897a: 122, pl. 5, f. 3 (Df) Original description

Ascyltus ferox Simon, 1903a: 815 (T omitted by Roewer)

Ascyltus lautus (Keyserling, 1881) | | New Guinea, Samoa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032336

Hasarius lautus Keyserling, 1881a: 1287, pl. 110, f. 3 (Dm) Original description

Cytaea lautus Keyserling, 1883b: 1477

Euryattus lautus Simon, 1903a: 815

Ascyltus lautus Roewer, 1955c: 1023

Ascyltus minahassae Merian, 1911 | | Indonesia (Sulawesi) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032337

Ascyltus minahassae Merian, 1911: 324 (Df) Original description

Ascyltus opulentus (Walckenaer, 1837) | | Tonga urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032338

Attus opulentus Walckenaer, 1837: 477 (Df) Original description

Ascyltus opulentus Simon, 1903a: 815

Ascyltus pterygodes (L. Koch, 1865) | | Pacific Is. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032339

Hyllus pterygodes L. Koch, 1865: 876 (Dm) Original description

Hyllus pterygodes Keyserling, 1882: 1339, pl. 113, f. 6-7 (m, Df)

Ascyltus pterygodes Simon, 1903a: 817, f. 953 (f)

Ascyltus pterygodes Prószyński, 1984a: 3 (m)

Ascyltus pterygodes Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997: 111, f. 1, 4, 7, 9-11 (mf)

Ascyltus pterygodes Prószyński, 2017b: 77, f. 33Q (mf)

Ascyltus rhizophora Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997 | | Fiji urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032340

Ascyltus rhizophora Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997: 116, f. 6, 8, 29-30 (Df) Original description

Ascyltus similis Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997 | | Fiji, Samoa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032341

Ascyltus similis Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997: 114, f. 2, 5, 12-13, 15-16, 21-28 (Dmf) Original description