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. Bryantella Chickering, 1946 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02864

In synonymy:

Bryantella convexa (Chickering, 1946, T from Parnaenus) = Bryantella smaragda Crane, 1945 (Scioscia, 1988: 189)

Bryantella smaragda (Crane, 1945) | | Panama to Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032588

Parnaeus smaragdus Crane, 1945: 40, f. 5A-G (Dm) Original description

Parnaenus convexus Chickering, 1946: 335, f. 292-297 (Dmf)

Parnaenus convexus Prószyński, 1971e: 446 (Tmf from Dendryphantes)

Bryantella smaragdus Scioscia, 1988: 188, f. 7-8, 10-12, 19-23 (Tm from Dendryphantes, Sf)

Bryantella smaragdus Scioscia, 1995: 37, f. 1-12 (mf)

Bryantella smaragda Prószyński, 2017b: 95, f. 43E (m)

Bryantella speciosa Chickering, 1946 | | Panama to Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032589

Bryantella speciosa Chickering, 1946: 390, f. 343-347 (Dmf) Original description

Bryantella speciosa Scioscia, 1988: 188, f. 3-6, 9, 13, 17-18, 24-26 (mf)