World Spider Catalog

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. Homalattus White, 1841 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02993

type Salticus pustulatus White, 1841; gender masculine

N.B.: described as subgenus of Salticus Latreille, 1804, used at generic level by White, 1846: 180.

Transferred to other genera:

Homalattus analis Thorell, 1887 -- see Rhene

Homalattus deplanatus Karsch, 1880 -- see Rhene

Homalattus hispidus G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901 -- see Beata

Homalattus insularis G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885 -- see Ballagascar

Homalattus coriaceus Simon, 1902 | | Sierra Leone, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033969

Homalattus coriaceus Simon, 1902d: 34 (Df) Original description

Homalattus marshalli G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033970

Homalattus marshalli Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 218, pl. 24, f. 6 (Dmf) Original description

Homalattus obscurus G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033971

Homalattus obscurus Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 219, pl. 24, f. 8 (Df) Original description

Homalattus obscurus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 51, f. 1 (f)

Homalattus punctatus G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033972

Homalattus punctatus Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 219, pl. 24, f. 5 (Df) Original description

Homalattus punctatus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 52, f. 1-4 (f)

Homalattus pustulatus (White, 1841) | | Sierra Leone urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033973 TYPE SPECIES

Salticus (Homalattus) pustulatus White, 1841: 476 (Df) Original description

Homalattus pustulatus White, 1846: 180, pl. 2, f. 6

Homalattus similis G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033974

Homalattus similis Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 219, pl. 24, f. 7 (Df) Original description