World Spider Catalog

Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

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.

In synonymy:

Dischiropus Karsch, 1892 = Epocilla Thorell, 1887 (Simon, 1901a: 555)

Goajara G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1907 = Epocilla Thorell, 1887 (Żabka, 1985: 216)

Gen. Epocilla Thorell, 1887 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02941

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Dischiropus Karsch, 1892: 299 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05593] (type D. alticinctus Karsch, 1892 = Epocilla aurantiaca (Simon, 1885)) by Simon, 1901a: 555 and of Goajara G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1907: 615 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05592] (type G. crassipes G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1907 = Epocilla calcarata (Karsch, 1880)) by Żabka, 1985: 216.

In synonymy:

Epocilla alticinctus (Karsch, 1892, T from Dischiropus) = Epocilla aurantiaca Simon, 1885 (Simon, 1901a: 550, sub albocinctus, lapsus)

Epocilla crassipes (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1907, T from Goajara) = Epocilla calcarata Karsch, 1880 (Żabka, 1985: 217)

Epocilla kalapani (Tikader, 1977, T from Marpissa) = Epocilla calcarata Karsch, 1880 (Caleb et al., 2021: 227)

Epocilla pakhtunkhwa Ali & Maddison, 2018 = Epocilla aura Dyal, 1935 (Caleb et al., 2021: 223)

Epocilla rufa Wesołowska, 1981 = Epocilla calcarata Karsch, 1880 (Żabka, 1985: 217)

Epocilla tigrina (Tikader, 1965, T from Marpissa) = Epocilla aura Dyal, 1935 (Caleb et al., 2021: 223)

Epocilla aura (Dyal, 1935) | | Pakistan, India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036532

Thiania aura Dyal, 1935: 230, pl. 17, f. 177 (Dmf) Original description

Marpissa tigrina Tikader, 1965e: 261, f. 1a-b (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034494]

Marpissa tigrina Tikader & Biswas, 1981: 97, f. 177-178 (f)

Epocilla pakhtunkhwa Ali & Maddison in Ali et al., 2018: 4, f. 1-4 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050520]

Epocilla aura Caleb et al., 2021: 223, f. 1-10, 12-29 (mf, T from Thiania, S of Epocilla pakhtunkhwa and Marpissa tigrina)

Epocilla aurantiaca (Simon, 1885) | | India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033204

Opistoncus aurantiacus Simon, 1885h: 30 (Df) Original description

Dischiropus alticinctus Karsch, 1892: 300, pl. 12, f. 26 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055070]

Epocilla aurantiaca Simon, 1901a: 550, 555 (S of Dischiropus alticinctus, sub albocinctus, lapsus)

Epocilla aurantiaca Prószyński, 1984a: 38, 155 (mf)

Epocilla aurantiaca Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2016: 19, f. 16A-E, 25E, 27L (f)

Epocilla blairei Żabka, 1985 | | China, Vietnam urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033205

Epocilla blairei Żabka, 1985: 217, f. 127-131 (Dmf) Original description

Epocilla blairei Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 508, f. 291R-S (m)

Epocilla blairei Song & Chai, 1991: 16, f. 5A-D (m)

Epocilla blairei Peng, 2020: 97, f. 52a-d (mf)

Epocilla calcarata (Karsch, 1880) | | India, China to Indonesia (Sulawesi). Introduced to Seychelles, USA (Hawaii) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033206

Plexippus calcaratus Karsch, 1880c: 398 (Dm) Original description

Goajara crassipes Peckham & Peckham, 1907: 616 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055068]

Plexippus calcaratus Roewer, 1955c: 1634 (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium)

Marpissa kalapani Tikader, 1977a: 200, f. 23A-B (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034469]

Epocilla rufa Wesołowska, 1981a: 52, f. 22-31 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055069]

Epocilla calcarata Żabka, 1985: 217, f. 132-148 (mf, T from Plexippus, S of Epocilla rufa and Goajara crassipes)

Epocilla calcarata Feng, 1990: 218, f. 193.1-6 (mf)

Epocilla calcarata Chen & Zhang, 1991: 315, f. 335.1-6 (m)

Epocilla calcarata Peng et al., 1993: 51, f. 129-137 (mf)

Epocilla calcarata Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 509, f. 292H-I, 325D-E (mf)

Epocilla calcarata Saaristo, 2002: 25, f. 70-75 (mf)

Epocilla calcarata Saaristo, 2010: 181, f. 27.31-36 (mf)

Epocilla calcarata Yin et al., 2012: 1354, f. 733a-i (mf)

Epocilla calcarata Peng, 2020: 98, f. 53a-i (mf)

Epocilla calcarata Caleb et al., 2021: 227, f. 30-34 (f, S of Marpissa kalapani)

Epocilla chimakothiensis Jastrzebski, 2007 | | Bhutan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041220

Epocilla chimakothiensis Jastrzębski, 2007a: 15, f. 1-4, 14-15 (Df) Original description

Epocilla femoralis Simon, 1901 | | Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033207

Epocilla femoralis Simon, 1901c: 150 (Dm) Original description

Epocilla innotata Thorell, 1895 | j | Myanmar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033208

Epocilla innotata Thorell, 1895b: 353 (Dj) Original description

Epocilla mauriciana Simon, 1901 | | Mauritius urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033209

Epocilla mauriciana Simon, 1901c: 150 (Dm) Original description

Epocilla picturata Simon, 1901 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033210

Epocilla picturata Simon, 1901f: 62 (Dm) Original description

Epocilla picturata Strand, 1909f: 105 (Df)

Epocilla picturata Prószyński, 1984a: 39 (f)

Epocilla picturata Peng, 2020: 100, f. 54a-b (f)

Epocilla praetextata Thorell, 1887 | | India, Bhutan, China, Myanmar to Indonesia (Java) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033211

Epocilla praetextata Thorell, 1887: 378 (Dm) Original description

Epocilla praetextata Thorell, 1892a: 310 (m)

Epocilla praetextata Prószyński, 1984a: 39 (m, removed from S of E. aurantiaca)

Epocilla praetextata Jastrzębski, 2007a: 16, f. 5-13, 16-19 (m, Df)

Epocilla praetextata Kananbala et al., 2014: 6583, f. 1-3, images 1-6 (m)

Epocilla praetextata Prószyński, 2017b: 15, f. 4J (m)

Epocilla praetextata Prószyński, 2018a: 26, f. 5F (m)

Epocilla praetextata Li, Wang & Liu, 2021: 139, f. 1A-D, 2A-C (mf)

Epocilla sirohi Caleb, Chatterjee, Tyagi, Kundu & Kumar, 2017 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049821

Epocilla sirohi Caleb et al., 2017c: 330, f. 1-9 (Dm) Original description

Epocilla xylina Simon, 1906 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033212

Epocilla xylina Simon, 1906c: 314 (Dm) Original description

Epocilla xylina Prószyński, 1984a: 40 (mf)