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. Descanso G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02922

Transferred to other genera:

Descanso formosus Bryant, 1943 -- see Peckhamia

Descanso magnus Bryant, 1943 -- see Peckhamia

Descanso montanus Bryant, 1943 -- see Peckhamia

Descanso chapoda G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033133

Descanso chapoda Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 73, pl. 6, f. 1 (Df) Original description

Descanso chapoda Simon, 1901a: 528, f. 637-638

Descanso discicollis (Taczanowski, 1878) | | Peru urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033134

Salticus discicollis Taczanowski, 1878a: 371 (Df) Original description

Descanso discicollis Galiano, 1974a: 9, f. 7-10, 22-23 (Tf from Salticus, where "nicht zu deuten!" per Roewer)

Descanso insolitus Chickering, 1946 | | Panama urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033136

Descanso insolitus Chickering, 1946: 430, f. 392-398 (Dmf) Original description

Descanso peregrinus Chickering, 1946 | | Panama, Colombia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033139

Descanso peregrinus Chickering, 1946: 435, f. 399-403 (Dmf) Original description

Descanso peregrinus Galvis & Muñoz-Charry, 2016: 2, f. 1-13 (mf)

Descanso sobrius Galiano, 1986 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033140

Descanso sobrius Galiano, 1986: 136, f. 20-21 (Dm) Original description

Descanso vagus G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033141

Descanso vagus Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 72, pl. 5, f. 9 (Df) Original description

Descanso ventrosus Galiano, 1986 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033142

Descanso ventrosus Galiano, 1986: 134, f. 12-19 (Dmf) Original description

Descanso ventrosus Prószyński, 2017b: 80, f. 34Q (mf)