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. Avitus G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02839

Avitus anumbi Mello-Leitão, 1940 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032392

Avitus anumbi Mello-Leitão, 1940h: 31 (Dm) Original description

Avitus castaneonotatus Mello-Leitão, 1939 | | Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032393

Avitus castaneonotatus Mello-Leitão, 1939e: 84, f. 73 (Df) Original description

Avitus diolenii G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896 | | Panama urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032394

Avitus diolenii Peckham & Peckham, 1896: 58, pl. 5, f. 3 (Dm) Original description

Avitus diolenii F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 298, pl. 29, f. 7 (m)

Avitus longidens Simon, 1901 | | Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032395

Avitus longidens Simon, 1901a: 614, f. 731 (Dm) Original description

Avitus longidens Simon, 1902d: 30 (Dm)

Avitus longidens Galiano, 1963a: 305, pl. X, f. 5-8 (m)

Avitus longidens Prószyński, 2017b: 94, f. 42D (m)

Avitus taylori (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) | | Jamaica urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032396

Dendryphantes taylori Peckham & Peckham, 1901b: 15, pl. 4, f. 13 (Dmf) Original description

Avitus taylori Bryant, 1950a: 175 (Tm from Dendryphantes)

Avitus variabilis Mello-Leitão, 1945 | | Paraguay, Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032397

Avitus variabilis Mello-Leitão, 1945b: 276, f. 64-66 (Dmf) Original description