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, 2015Maddison 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. Epidelaxia Simon, 1902 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02940
type Epidelaxia albostellata Simon, 1902; gender feminine

Transferred to other genera:

Epidelaxia maurerae Freudenschuss & Seiter, 2016 -- see Bavia

Epidelaxia albocruciata Simon, 1902 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033201
Epidelaxia albocruciata Simon, 1902d: 367 (Dmf) Original description
Epidelaxia albocruciata Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024: S6, f. 8a-d, 9a-g, 10a-d (mf)
Epidelaxia albostellata Simon, 1902 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033202 TYPE SPECIES
Epidelaxia albostellata Simon, 1902d: 367 (Dmf) Original description
Epidelaxia albostellata Simon, 1903a: 797, f. 917 (m)
Epidelaxia albostellata Prószyński, 1987: 22 (mf)
Epidelaxia albostellata Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024: S3, f. 4a-d, 5a-d, 6a-g, 7a-h (mf)
Epidelaxia bharathi Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061701
Epidelaxia bharathi Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024: 702, S10, f. 13a-g, 14a-d (Dmf) Original description
Epidelaxia falciformis Asima, Caleb, Prasad & Joseph, 2025 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064121
Epidelaxia falciformis Asima et al., 2025: 596, f. 1-7 (Dm) Original description
Epidelaxia obscura Simon, 1902 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033203
Epidelaxia obscura Simon, 1902d: 368 (Dm) Original description
Epidelaxia obscura Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024: S8, f. 11a-g, 12a-d (m, Df)
Epidelaxia palustris Asima, Caleb, Prasad & Joseph, 2025 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064122
Epidelaxia palustris Asima et al., 2025: 596, f. 8-21 (Dmf) Original description
Epidelaxia somasundaram Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061702
Epidelaxia somasundaram Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024: 702, S11, f. 15a-g, 16a-g (Dmf) Original description

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