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:

Donoessus Simon, 1902 = Colyttus Thorell, 1891 (Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 31)

Gen. Colyttus Thorell, 1891 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02898

type Colyttus bilineatus Thorell, 1891; gender masculine

N.B.: considered a synonym of Donoessus Simon, 1902d: 376 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02930] (type Hasarius nigriceps Simon, 1899) by Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 31, synonym not accepted by Prószyński, 2017b: 74, but Donoessus not formally revalidated.

In synonymy:

Colyttus modestus (Simon, 1899, T from Hyllus) = Colyttus bilineatus Thorell, 1891 (Simon, 1903a: 728)

Colyttus bilineatus Thorell, 1891 | | India, Malaysia (peninsula), Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra, Moluccas) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032837 TYPE SPECIES

Colyttus bilineatus Thorell, 1891: 132 (Df) Original description

Hyllus modestus Simon, 1899a: 113 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066716]

Colyttus bilineatus Simon, 1903a: 728, 737, f. 848-850 (m, S of Hyllus modestus)

Colyttus bilineatus Prószyński, 1984a: 19 (m)

Colyttus bilineatus Prószyński, 1987: 17 (m)

Colyttus bilineatus Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 31, f. 524-530, 884-885 (mf)

Colyttus bilineatus Prószyński, 2017b: 74, f. 38Q, 39R (mf)

Colyttus bilineatus Chetry, Caleb & Choudhury, 2026: 28259, f. 1-5 (m)

Colyttus kerinci (Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012) | | Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044960

Donoessus kerinci Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012: 32, f. 10-14, 18-19 (Dmf) Original description

Donoessus kerinci Prószyński, 2017b: 74, f. 38P (mf, T from Colyttus, but Donoessus not revalidated)

Colyttus lehtineni Żabka, 1985 | | China, Vietnam urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032838

Colyttus lehtineni Żabka, 1985: 212, f. 97-105 (Dmf) Original description

Colyttus lehtineni Peng, 1989: 158, f. 4A-F (mf)

Colyttus lehtineni Peng et al., 1993: 42, f. 97-103 (mf)

Colyttus lehtineni Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 507, f. 290P-Q, 291F-G (mf)

Colyttus cf. lehtineni Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 80, f. 531-537 (mf)

Colyttus lehtineni Peng, 2020: 76, f. 36a-g (mf)

Colyttus nigriceps (Simon, 1899) | | Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033164

Hasarius nigriceps Simon, 1899a: 105 (Dm) Original description

Donoessus nigriceps Simon, 1903a: 799

Donoessus nigriceps Reimoser, 1925: 91 (Df)

Donoessus nigriceps Prószyński, 1984a: 36 (mf)

Donoessus nigriceps Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012: 32, f. 20-22 (mf)

Donoessus nigriceps Prószyński, 2017b: 74 (T from Colyttus, but Donoessus not revalidated)

Colyttus nongwar Sudhin & Sen, 2025 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066502

Colyttus nongwar Sudhin & Sen, 2025c: 286, f. 4A-F, 5A-F, 6A-D (Dmf) Original description

Colyttus proszynskii Caleb, Chatterjee, Tyagi, Kundu & Kumar, 2018 | | India, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050546

Colyttus proszynskii Caleb et al., 2018b: 7, f. 1-11 (Dm) Original description

Colyttus robustus Zhang & Maddison, 2012 | | Malaysia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:045594

Colyttus robustus Zhang & Maddison, 2012d: 56, f. 10-12, 106 (Dm) Original description

Colyttus striatus (Simon, 1902) | | Borneo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033165

Donoessus striatus Simon, 1902d: 376 (Dm) Original description

Donoessus striatus Simon, 1903a: 772, f. 928-929 (m)

Donoessus striatus Żabka, 1988: 451, f. 84-86 (m)

Donoessus striatus Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012: 33, f. 15-17 (m)

Donoessus striatus Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013: 124, f. 36-37 (Df)

Colyttus striatus Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 31, f. 538-544, 648, 886-887 (mf)

Donoessus striatus Prószyński, 2017b: 64 (T from Colyttus, but Donoessus not revalidated)

Colyttus yiwui Lin & Li, 2020 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052122

Colyttus yiwui Lin & Li, 2020c: 97, f. 1A-C, 2A-H (Dmf) Original description