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.

Gen. Holcolaetis Simon, 1886 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02991

type Holcolaetis xerampelina Simon, 1886; gender feminine

In synonymy:

Holcolaetis camerunensis Roewer, 1965 = Holcolaetis vellerea Simon, 1909 (Wanless, 1985: 256)

Holcolaetis dyali Roewer, 1951 = Holcolaetis vellerea Simon, 1909 (Dyal, 1935: 222, sub Holcolaetis vidua)

Holcolaetis vidua Lessert, 1927 = Holcolaetis vellerea Simon, 1909 (Clark, 1974: 16)

Holcolaetis albobarbata Simon, 1909 | | West, Central Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033922

Holcolethis albobarbata Simon, 1909f: 413 (Df) Original description

Holcolaetis albobarbata Roewer, 1965: 25, f. 25b (f)

Holcolaetis albobarbata Clark, 1974: 16, f. 23 (f)

Holcolaetis albobarbata Wanless, 1985: 260, f. 7A-E, 8A-F, 16D (mf)

Holcolaetis clarki Wanless, 1985 | | West, Central Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033923

Holcolaetis clarki Wanless, 1985: 263, f. 9A-F, 10A-F, 16E (Dmf) Original description

Holcolaetis cothurnata (Gerstaecker, 1873) | | Tanzania (Zanzibar) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033924

Plexippus cothurnatus Gerstaecker, 1873: 473 (Dm) Original description

Hyllus cothurnatus Simon, 1886g: 349

Holcolaetis cothurnata Próchniewicz, 1989: 211, f. 11-13 (Tm from Hyllus)

Holcolaetis spatulata Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025 | | Ghana urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065448

Holcolaetis spatulata Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025: 613, f. 13A-G (Dm) Original description

Holcolaetis strandi Caporiacco, 1940 | | Ethiopia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033926

Holcolaetis strandi Caporiacco, 1940c: 855, f. 48 (Df) Original description

Holcolaetis strandi Caporiacco, 1941b: 151, f. 57 (f)

Holcolaetis strandi Roewer, 1965: 28, f. 25d (f)

Holcolaetis strandi Prószyński, 1987: 44 (f)

Holcolaetis vellerea Simon, 1909 | | Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Sao Tome, DR Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Yemen urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033927

Holcolethis vellerea Simon, 1909f: 412 (Df) Original description

Holcolaetis vidua Lessert, 1927: 426, f. 15 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061972]

Holcolaetis vidua Dyal, 1935: 222 (mf)

Holcolaetis dyali Roewer, 1951: 444 (superfluous and invalid replacement name for Dyal's record; Dyal refers to Lessert's species; nevertheless it is unlikely, that the species occurs in Pakistan) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033925]

Holcolaetis camerunensis Roewer, 1965: 26, f. 23, 24a (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061971]

Holcolaetis vidua Roewer, 1965: 27, f. 24c (m)

Holcolaetis vellerea Clark, 1974: 16 (S of Holcolaetis vidua)

Holcolaetis vidua Wanless, 1984b: 446, f. 3B, 20A-F, 22B, D, F

Holcolaetis vellerea Wanless, 1985: 255, f. 1A-B, 4A-J, 5A-D, 12A-B, 15A-B, 16B, 17-19 (mf, S of Holcolaetis camerunensis)

Holcolaetis vellerea Wesołowska & van Harten, 2007: 221, f. 89-94 (m)

Holcolaetis vellerea Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 188, f. 67-70 (mf)

Holcolaetis vellerea Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 46, f. 30A-C (m)

Holcolaetis vellerea Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 47, p. 46: f. 2, p. 47: f. 1-6 (mf)

Holcolaetis xerampelina Simon, 1886 | | Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033928 TYPE SPECIES

Holcolaetis xerampelina Simon, 1886g: 394 (Df) Original description

Holcolaetis xerampelina Simon, 1901a: 454, f. 518-521 (f)

Holcolaetis xerampelina Strand, 1909a: 181 (Dm)

Holcolaetis xerampelina Lessert, 1925a: 432, f. 5-6 (mf)

Holcolaetis xerampelina Roewer, 1965: 24, f. 24b, 25a (mf)

Holcolaetis xerampelina Clark, 1974: 16, f. 24 (f)

Holcolaetis xerampelina Wanless, 1985: 254, f. 2A-J, 3A-C, 16A (mf)

Holcolaetis xerampelina Wijesinghe, 1992: 12, f. 18, 20 (m)

Holcolaetis xerampelina Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011: 79, f. 11-12 (m)

Holcolaetis zuluensis Lawrence, 1937 | | Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033929

Holcolaetis zuluensis Lawrence, 1937: 255, f. 23 (Df) Original description

Holcolaetis zuluensis Roewer, 1965: 28, f. 25c (f)

Holcolaetis zuluensis Wanless, 1985: 259, f. 6A-G, 16C (mf)

Holcolaetis zuluensis Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 47, f. 83-86, 240-241 (mf)

Holcolaetis zuluensis Ramírez, 2014: 227, f. 155C (m)

Holcolaetis zuluensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 48, p. 46: f. 1, p. 48: f. 1-7 (mf)