World Spider Catalog

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. Cynapes Simon, 1900 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02912

type Salticus wrighti Blackwall, 1877; gender masculine

Transferred to other genera:

Cynapes albolineatus (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885) -- see Bavia

Cynapes canosus Simon, 1900 -- see Marengo

Cynapes baptizatus (Butler, 1876) | | Mauritius (Rodriguez) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033020

Salticus baptizatus Butler, 1876b: 440 (Df) Original description

Salticus baptizatus Butler, 1878a: 506, pl. 52, f. 2 (f)

Cynapes baptizatus Simon, 1901a: 467

Cynapes baptizatus Wanless, 1979b: 68, f. 1A-K (f, Dm)

Cynapes canosus Simon, 1900 | | Mauritius urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034423

Cynapes canosus Simon, 1900b: 393 (Dmf) Original description

Marengo canosa Wanless, 1979b: 70, f. 2A-K (Tmf from Cynapes)

Cynapes canosus Benjamin, 2004b: 19, f. 8C-D, 9A (Tmf from Marengo)

Cynapes lineatus (Vinson, 1863) | | Reunion, Mauritius urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032482

Attus lineatus Vinson, 1863: 53, 301, pl. 10, f. 4 (Df) Original description

Cyrtonota vinsonii Simon, 1864: 324 (unnecessary replacement name)

Beata lineata Simon, 1903a: 838

Cynapes lineatus Ledoux, 2007: 16, f. 3C, 9, 9A-F (Dm, f, T from Beata)

Cynapes wrighti (Blackwall, 1877) | | Seychelles urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033021 TYPE SPECIES

Salticus wrightii Blackwall, 1877: 2, pl. 1, f. 1 (Df) Original description

Bavia wrighti Simon, 1893h: 209 (Dm)

Cynapes wrighti Simon, 1900b: 393 (T from Bavia)

Cynapes wrighti Simon, 1901a: 471, f. 533-534 (mf)

Cynapes wrighti Prószyński, 1984a: 32 (f)

Cynapes wrightii Wanless, 1984c: 39, f. 13a-g (mf)

Cynapes wrighti Żabka, 1988: 446, f. 71-73 (m)

Cynapes wrighti Benjamin, 2004b: 17, f. 8A-B, 9B, 10A-G (mf)

Cynapes wrighti Saaristo, 2010: 179, f. 27.27-30 (mf)

Cynapes wrighti Prószyński, 2017b: 90, f. 40G (mf)

Cynapes wrighti Azarkina & Haddad, 2020: 88, f. 447 (m)