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:

Mirandia Badcock, 1932 = Gastromicans Mello-Leitão, 1917 (Sherwood, Nadal & Pett, 2023: 5)

Gen. Gastromicans Mello-Leitão, 1917 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02962

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Beata G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1895 by Maddison, 1996: 234; considered a senior synonym of Mirandia Badcock, 1932: 47 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03078] (type M. australis Badcock, 1932) by Sherwood, Nadal & Pett, 2023: 5.

In synonymy:

Gastromicans squamulata (Mello-Leitão, 1917, T from Beata) = Gastromicans albopilosa Simon, 1903 (Galiano, 1980b: 38, sub Beata)

Gastromicans albopilosa (Simon, 1903) | | Brazil, Paraguay urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033509

Beata albopilosa Simon, 1903a: 831, f. 988 (Dm) Original description

Gastromicans squamulata Mello-Leitão, 1917c: 147, f. 16, 22 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056098]

Beata albopilosa Galiano, 1963a: 306, pl. XII, f. 1-2 (m)

Beata albopilosa Bauab-Vianna, 1979b: 195, f. 8-12 (Df)

Beata albopilosa Galiano, 1980b: 38 (S of Gastromicans squamulata)

Gastromicans albopilosa Maddison, 1996: 234 (T from Beata)

Gastromicans albopilosa Prószyński, 2017b: 97, f. 43J (m)

Gastromicans australis (Badcock, 1932) | | Brazil, Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034684

Mirandia australis Badcock, 1932: 47, f. 39 (Df) Original description

Gastromicans australis Sherwood, Nadal & Pett, 2023: 3, f. 3-12 (f, T from Mirandia)

Gastromicans hondurensis (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896) | | Guatemala, Honduras urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033510

Dendryphantes hondurensis Peckham & Peckham, 1896: 48, pl. 4, f. 4 (Df) Original description

Metaphidippus hondurensis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 272, pl. 25, f. 8 (f)

Dendryphyntes hondurensis Roewer, 1955c: 1195

Metaphidippus hondurensis Prószyński, 1971e: 433 (T from Dendryphantes)

Gastromicans hondurensis Maddison, 1996: 234 (T from Metaphidippus)

Gastromicans levispina (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) | | Panama, Colombia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033511

Metaphidippus levispinus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 267, pl. 24, f. 4 (Dmf) Original description

Dendryphantes levispinus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 634

Beata levispina Chickering, 1946: 260, f. 219-224 (mf)

Gastromicans levispina Maddison, 1996: 234, f. 73, 93-95, 101 (mf, T from Beata)

Gastromicans levispina Bedoya-Róqueme & Lopez-Villada, 2020b: 9, f. 20-26 (mf)

Gastromicans noxiosa (Simon, 1886) | | Bolivia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033512

Dendryphantes noxiosus Simon, 1886f: 169 (Dm) Original description

Dendryphantes noxiosus Galiano, 1963a: 342, pl. XVIII, f. 1-4 (m, Df)

Gastromicans noxiosa Maddison, 1996: 234 (T from Dendryphantes)

Gastromicans tesselata (C. L. Koch, 1846) | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035494

Phidippus. tesselatus C. L. Koch, 1846: 158, f. 1213 (Dm) Original description

Dendryphantes tesselatus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 642

Phidippus tessellatus Prószyński, 1971e: 456 (T from Dendryphantes)

Gastromicans tesselatus Edwards, 2004: 5 (T from Phidippus)

Gastromicans vigens (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) | | Brazil, Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033513

Dendryphantes vigens Peckham & Peckham, 1901a: 317, pl. 27, f. 3 (Dm) Original description

Metaphidippus vigens Mello-Leitão, 1941d: 184

Dendryphantes vigens Roewer, 1955c: 1201

Metaphidippus vigens Prószyński, 1971e: 434 (T from Dendryphantes)

Gastromicans vigens Maddison, 1996: 234 (T from Metaphidippus)