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.

In synonymy:

Cydonia G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894 = Cerionesta Simon, 1901 (Simon, 1901a: 606, preoccupied, replacement name)

Gen. Cerionesta Simon, 1901 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02877

type Cydonia luteola G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894; gender feminine

N.B.: replacement name for Cydonia G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894b: 700 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05951], preoccupied in Coleoptera by Mulsant, 1850.

Transferred to other genera:

Cerionesta cribrata Simon, 1901 -- see Hyetussa

Cerionesta leucomystax Caporiacco, 1947 -- see Sassacus

Cerionesta leucoprocta Mello-Leitão, 1944 -- see Jollas

Nomen dubium:

Cerionesta aurantia Mello-Leitão, 1940h: 32 (m, Brazil) -- Galiano, 1976a: 61

Cerionesta luteola (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894) | | St. Vincent urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032643 TYPE SPECIES

Cydonia luteola Peckham & Peckham, 1894b: 700, pl. 62, f. 8 (Dmf) Original description

Cerionesta luteola Simon, 1901a: 607

Cerionesta luteola Galiano, 1976a: 59, f. 1-7 (m)

Cerionesta pacifica (Banks, 1902) | | Galapagos urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035514

Philaeus pacificus Banks, 1902c: 67 (Dmf) Original description

Cerionesta pacifica Edwards & Baert, 2018: 12, f. 6A-G, 7A-C, 8A-C (mf, T from Philaeus)

Cerionesta pacifica Baert et al., 2023: 23, f. 78A-G (mf)