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:

Codeta Simon, 1900 = Gelotia Thorell, 1890 (Wanless, 1984a: 169)

Policha Thorell, 1892 = Gelotia Thorell, 1890 (Prószyński, 1969: 13)

Gen. Gelotia Thorell, 1890 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02964

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Policha Thorell, 1892c: 351 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05856] (type Gelotia bimaculata Thorell, 1890) by Prószyński, 1969: 13 and of Codeta Simon, 1900d: 33 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05855] (type C. argenteolimbata Simon, 1900) by Wanless, 1984a: 169.

Gelotia argenteolimbata (Simon, 1900) | | Singapore urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033519

Codeta argenteo-limbata Simon, 1900d: 33 (Dm) Original description

Codeta argenteolimbata Simon, 1901a: 413, f. 444-446 (m)

Gelotia argenteolimbata Wanless, 1984a: 174, f. 16A, 18A-F (m)

Gelotia argenteolimbata Prószyński, 1987: 28 (m)

Gelotia argenteolimbata Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012: 38, f. 56-58 (m)

Gelotia bimaculata Thorell, 1890 | | Malaysia (Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033520

Gelotia bimaculata Thorell, 1890c: 165 (Df) Original description

Policha bimaculata Thorell, 1892a: 348, 351

Gelotia bimaculata Prószyński, 1969: 16, f. 2, 4,6, 8 (f)

Gelotia bimaculata Wanless, 1984a: 172, f. 17C, I-J (f, S of Codeta bouchardi; rejected by Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012: 38)

Gelotia bimaculata Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012: 38, f. 53-54 (f)

Gelotia bimaculata Prószyński, 2017b: 114, f. 50S (f)

Gelotia bouchardi (Simon, 1903) | | Malaysia (Borneo), Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044963

Codeta bouchardi Simon, 1903h: 305 (Dm) Original description

Gelotia bimaculata Wanless, 1984a: 172, f. 16B, 17A-B, D-H, 30E-F, 33A-B, 35C-D (m; misidentified per Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012: 38)

Gelotia bouchardi Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012: 38, f. 47-52 (m, Df, removed from S of G. bimaculata, contra Wanless, 1984a: 172)

Gelotia bouchardi Prószyński, 2017b: 114, f. 50U-U1 (mf)

Gelotia frenata Thorell, 1890 | | Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033521

Gelotia frenata Thorell, 1890c: 164 (Df) Original description

Gelotia frenata Prószyński, 1969: 13, f. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 (f)

Gelotia frenata Wanless, 1984a: 170, f. 16D-F (f)

Gelotia frenata Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012: 38, f. 55 (f)

Gelotia frenata Prószyński, 2017b: 114, f. 50T (f)

Gelotia lanka Wijesinghe, 1991 | | India, Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033522

Gelotia lanka Wijesinghe, 1991a: 275, f. 1-6 (Dmf) Original description

Gelotia lanka Jose, Tripathi & Sudhikumar, 2023: 4, f. 2A-F (m)

Gelotia lanka Asima, Caleb & Prasad, 2024: 253, f. 1-14 (mf)

Gelotia liuae Wang & Li, 2020 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051630

Gelotia sp. Maddison et al., 2014: 68, f. 7 (m)

Gelotia liuae Wang & Li, 2020a: 38, f. 7A-D, 8A-F, 17D, 18D, 19D (Dmf) Original description

Gelotia robusta Wanless, 1984 | | Papua New Guinea (New Britain), Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033523

Gelotia robusta Wanless, 1984a: 174, f. 16C, 19A-F (Dm) Original description

Gelotia robusta Patoleta & Żabka, 2020: 281, f. 1-17 (m, Df)

Gelotia salax (Thorell, 1877) | | Indonesia (Sulawesi) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033524

Cocalus salax Thorell, 1877b: 594 (Dm) Original description

Codeta salax Wanless, 1981c: 256 (T from Cocalus)

Gelotia salax Wanless, 1984a: 176, f. 20A-I (m, T from Codeta)

Gelotia syringopalpis Wanless, 1984 | | China, Malaysia (Peninsula, Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033525

Gelotia syringopalpis Wanless, 1984a: 178, f. 21A-I (Dmf) Original description

Gelotia syringopalpis Wanless, 1984b: 446, f. 18D-F

Gelotia syringopalpis Xie & Peng, 1995a: 289, f. 1-5 (mf)

Gelotia syringopalpis Song & Li, 1997: 433, f. 42A-D (m)

Gelotia syringopalpis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 512, f. 297C-D, M-N, 326A (mf)

Gelotia syringopalpis Yin et al., 2012: 1372, f. 745a-e (mf)

Gelotia syringopalpis Peng, 2020: 150, f. 97a-e (mf)

Gelotia zhengi Cao & Li, 2016 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048888

Gelotia zhengi Cao & Li in Cao, Li & Żabka, 2016: 78, f. 24A-D, 25A-B (Dm) Original description

Gelotia zhengi Wang & Li, 2020a: 41, f. 9A-D, 10A-G, 17G, 18G, 19G (m, Df)