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.

Gen. Festucula Simon, 1901 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02952

Festucula australis Lawrence, 1927 | | Congo, Angola, Namibia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047494

Festucula australis Lawrence, 1927: 59, pl. 2, f. 44 (Df) Original description

Festucula australis Lessert, 1933: 149, f. 67-69, 71 (f, Dm)

Festucula festuculaeformis Wesołowska, 1992: 46, f. 2-21, 23-25 (mf; misidentified, per Azarkina & Foord, 2014: 355)

Festucula australis Azarkina & Foord, 2014: 355, f. 14, 22, 27-44 (mf, removed from S of F. festuculaeformis, contra Wesolowska, 1992: 46)

Festucula botswana Azarkina & Foord, 2023 | | Botswana urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059519

Festucula botswana Azarkina & Foord, 2023: 297, f. 1-7 (Df) Original description

Festucula festuculaeformis (Lessert, 1925) | | Eastern Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033441

Pseudicius festuculaeformis Lessert, 1925a: 465, f. 50-54 (Dm) Original description

Festucula festuculaeformis Lessert, 1933: 149

Festucula festuculaeformis Wesołowska, 1992: 46, f. 22 (m, S of Festucula australis; rejected by Azarkina & Foord, 2014: 355; other figs. see Festucula australis)

Festucula lawrencei Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 28, f. 49-51 (m, Df; misidentified per Azarkina & Foord, 2014: 359)

Festucula festuculaeformis Azarkina & Foord, 2014: 359, f. 16, 25, 45-60 (mf)

Festucula festuculaeformis Prószyński, 2017b: 42, f. 19C (m)

Festucula haddadi Azarkina & Foord, 2014 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047495

Festucula lawrencei Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 35, f. 50-52 (f; misidentified per Azarkina & Foord, 2014: 362)

Festucula haddadi Azarkina & Foord, 2014: 362, f. 17, 24, 61-76 (Dmf) Original description

Festucula lawrencei Lessert, 1933 | | Angola, Botswana urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033442

Festucula lawrencei Lessert, 1933: 152, f. 72 (Dm) Original description

Festucula lawrencei Wesołowska, 1992: 50, f. 26-27 (m)

Festucula lawrencei Azarkina & Foord, 2014: 365, f. 15, 77-87 (m)

Festucula lawrencei Azarkina & Foord, 2023: 298, f. 8-21 (m, Df)

Festucula leroyae Azarkina & Foord, 2014 | | Botswana, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047496

Festucula leroyae Azarkina & Foord, 2014: 366, f. 8-9, 19, 88-103 (Dmf) Original description

Festucula lineata Simon, 1901 | | Senegal, Angola urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047498

Festucula lineata Simon, 1901c: 155 (Df; types are juvenile per Wesołowska, 1992: 52) Original description

Festucula lineata Lessert, 1933: 152, f. 73 (f)

Festucula lineata Wesołowska, 1992: 52 (nomen dubium)

Festucula lineata Azarkina & Foord, 2014: 369 (removed from nomen dubium)

Festucula monticola Berland & Millot, 1941 | | Guinea, Nigeria, Ivory Coast urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056022

Festucula lineata Fage, 1923b: 299, f. 1 (m; misidentified per Azarkina & Foord, 2023: 301)

Festucula monticola Berland & Millot, 1941: 345, f. 48 (Df) Original description

Festucula monticola Wesołowska, 1992: 54 (description is insufficient to identify the species = nomen dubium)

Festucula festuculaeformis Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012: 746, f. 44-45 (f; misidentified per Azarkina & Foord, 2023: 301)

Festucula monticola Azarkina & Foord, 2014: 374 (nomen dubium confirmed, probably a junior S of F. lineata)

Festucula lineata Azarkina & Foord, 2014: 369, f. 104-112 (m; misidentified per Azarkina & Foord, 2023: 301)

Festucula monticola Azarkina & Foord, 2023: 301, f. 22-28 (f, removed from nomen dubium)

Festucula robusta Azarkina & Foord, 2014 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047497

Festucula robustus Azarkina & Foord, 2014: 371, f. 113-128 (Dmf) Original description

Festucula vermiformis Simon, 1901 | | Egypt, Sudan, Israel urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033443

Festucula vermiformis Simon, 1901a: 607, f. 718

Festucula vermiformis Simon, 1901c: 155 (Df) Original description

Festucula vermiformis Lessert, 1933: 149, f. 70 (f)

Festucula vermiformis Prószyński, 1987: 27 (f)

Festucula vermiformis Wesołowska, 1992: 52, f. 28-31 (f)

Festucula vermiformis Prószyński, 2003: 64, f. 241-243 (f)

Festucula vermiformis Prószyński, 2017b: 42, f. 19B (f)