World Spider Catalog

Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Lyssomanidae Blackwall, 1877 by Galiano, 1976b: 67; for illustrations of scale morphology of about 60 species, see Hill, 1979; for the phylogeny within the family see Maddison & Hedin, 2003b, Maddison, 2015, Maddison et al., 2017, Prószyński, 2017b and Zhang et al., 2024f; the subfamilies Asemoneinae Maddison, 2015, Eupoinae Maddison, 2015, Hisponinae Simon 1901, Lyssomaninae, Onomastinae Maddison, 2015, Salticinae and Spartaeinae Wanless, 1984 are confirmed by Zhang et al., 2024f: 347.

Gen. Belippo Simon, 1909 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02851

type Belippo anguina Simon, 1909; gender feminine

Belippo anguina Simon, 1909 | | São Tomé and Príncipe urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032495 TYPE SPECIES

Belippo anguina Simon, 1909f: 416 (Dj) Original description

Belippo anguina Wanless, 1978a: 7, f. 4A-B, D (Df)

Belippo attenuata Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014 | | Lesotho urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047190

Belippo attenuata Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014: 233, f. 8-10, 12-19 (Dmf) Original description

Belippo calcarata (Roewer, 1942) | | Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Rep., DR Congo, Kenya, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032496

Myrmarachne calcarata Roewer, 1942b: 253, pl. 19, f. 9 (Dm) Original description

Belippo calcarata Wanless, 1978a: 11, f. 6A-L (m, Df, T from Myrmarachne)

Belippo calcarata Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2015: 549, f. 2-11 (mf)

Belippo calcarata Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018: 883, f. 27, 33 (f)

Belippo calcarata Pett, Iyomi & Mbende, 2023: 471, f. 19-23 (f)

Belippo calcarata Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 32, f. 1-8 (mf)

Belippo calcarata Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026: 9, f. 5A-F (f)

Belippo cygniformis Wanless, 1978 | | Ghana urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032497

Belippo cygniformis Wanless, 1978a: 16, f. 8A-B, E-F, 9H-J, pl. 2c (Dm) Original description

Belippo eburnensis Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2020 | | Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051774

Belippo eburnensis Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2020: 97, f. 1-28 (Dmf) Original description

Belippo elgonensis Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2015 | | Kenya urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047807

Belippo elgonensis Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2015: 551, f. 12-21 (Dm) Original description

Belippo ibadan Wanless, 1978 | | Nigeria urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032498

Belippo ibadan Wanless, 1978a: 16, f. 8C-D, G-H, 9A-G, pl. 1g, 2d (Dmf) Original description

Belippo ibadan Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 563, f. 35-39 (mf)

Belippo meridionalis Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:045903

Belippo meridionalis Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013: 186, f. 3, 15, 36-42 (Dmf) Original description

Belippo meridionalis Prószyński, 2017b: 107, f. 47A-C (mf)

Belippo meridionalis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 33, p. 31: f. 1, p. 33: f. 1-10 (mf)

Belippo milloti (Lessert, 1942) | | Ivory Coast, Nigeria, DR Congo, Kenya urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032499

Myrmarachne milloti Lessert, 1942: 8, f. 1-4 (Dmf) Original description

Belippo milloti Wanless, 1978a: 13, f. 7A-M (mf, T from Myrmarachne)

Belippo milloti Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012: 738, f. 17-24 (m)

Belippo milloti Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2015: 552, f. 22-23 (f)

Belippo milloti Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 17, f. 11A-J, 12A-F (mf)

Belippo nexilis (Simon, 1909) | | São Tomé and Príncipe urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032500

Myrmarachne nexilis Simon, 1909f: 415 (Df; m see Myrmarachne confusa) Original description

Belippo nexilis Wanless, 1978a: 9, f. 4C, E-G (f, T from Myrmarachne)

Belippo pulchra Haddad & Wesołowska, 2013 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:046839

Belippo pulchra Haddad & Wesołowska, 2013: 462, f. 5-9, 73-74 (Dmf) Original description

Belippo pulchra Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 34, p. 31: f. 2, p. 34: f. 1-8 (mf)

Belippo terribilis Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2015 | | Kenya urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047808

Belippo terribilis Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2015: 553, f. 24-30 (Dm) Original description

Belippo viettei (Kraus, 1960) | | São Tomé and Príncipe urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032501

Myrmarachne viettei Kraus, 1960: 97, f. 9-12 (Dm) Original description

Belippo viettei Wanless, 1978a: 10, f. 5A-G (m, T from Myrmarachne, possibly the unknown m of B. nexilis or B. anguina)