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:

Astituta Strand, 1929 = Astia L. Koch, 1879 (Bonnet, 1955: 768, superfluous replacement name)

Gen. Astia L. Koch, 1879 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02831

N.B.: Astia was replaced by Astituta Strand, 1929: 14 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05847], but this was superfluous as Astia is not preoccupied by Agassiz, 1846, who only emended Asteia Meigen, 1839 (Diptera) (Bonnet, 1955: 768); Wanless, 1988: 84 retained Vindima Thorell, 1895 in the synonymy of Astia, apparently as an error, since he earlier removed Vindima to the synonymy of Cyrba Simon, 1876 (Wanless, 1984b: 448, removed Vindima from synonymy of Astia L. Koch, 1879, rejecting Simon, 1901a: 438) and did not include the type species of Vindima in his list of Astia species.

Transferred to other genera:

Astia aurea L. Koch, 1880 -- see Arasia

Astia colemani Wanless, 1988 -- see Helpis

Astia maculata (Thorell, 1895) -- see Cyrba

Astia nodosa L. Koch, 1879 -- see Adoxotoma

Astia tristicula Simon, 1909 -- see Sondra

In synonymy:

Astia hariola L. Koch, 1879 = Astia maculata Karsch, 1878 (Wesołowska, 2024: 91)

Nomen dubium:

Astia ornata G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885a: 32 (Madagascar) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1418

Astia maculata (Karsch, 1878) | | Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033826

Heliophanus maculatus Karsch, 1878d: 23 (Dm) Original description

Astia hariola L. Koch, 1879a: 1153, pl. 100, f. 3-4 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032373]

Astituta hariola Strand, 1929: 14 (superfluous generic replacement name)

Astia hariola Prószyński, 1984a: 1 (f)

Heliophanus maculatus Wesołowska, 1986: 231, f. 880-882 (m)

Astia hariola Wanless, 1988: 85, f. 1A-I, 2A-J (mf)

Astia hariola Davies & Żabka, 1989: 206, pl. 14 (mf)

Astia hariola Prószyński, 2017b: 119, f. 52B, 53B (mf)

Astia maculata Wesołowska, 2024: 91 (T from Heliophanus, S of Astia hariola)