World Spider Catalog

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, 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.

In synonymy:

Apatita Mello-Leitão, 1933 = Erica G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892 (Galiano, 1980b: 35)

Gen. Erica G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02944

type Erica eugenia Peckham & Peckham, 1892; gender feminine

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Apatita Mello-Leitão, 1933a: 82 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05391] (type Apatita tristis Mello-Leitão, 1933 = Erica eugenia Peckham & Peckham, 1892) by Galiano, 1980b: 35.

In synonymy:

Erica scutata (Mello-Leitão, 1947, T from Sarinda) = Erica eugenia G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892 (Galiano, 1965b: 310)

Erica tristis (Mello-Leitão, 1933, T from Apatita) = Erica eugenia G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892 (Galiano, 1980b: 35)

Erica eugenia G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892 | | Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033220 TYPE SPECIES

Erica eugenia Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 55, pl. 4, f. 9 (Dmf) Original description

Erica eugenia F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 175, pl. 12, f. 10 (mf)

Apatita tristis Mello-Leitão, 1933a: 83, pl. 3, f. 13 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054407]

Sarinda scutata Mello-Leitão, 1947c: 30, pl. 1, f. 7, pl. 2, f. 8, pl. 5, f. 17 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054408]

Erica eugenia Galiano, 1965b: 310 (S of Sarinda scutata)

Erica eugenia Galiano, 1980b: 35 (S of Apatita tristis)

Erica eugenia Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 149, f. 128A-D, 129-130 (mf)

Erica eugenia Bedoya-Róqueme, 2022a: 2, f. 1-24 (mf)