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:

Monomotapa Wesołowska, 2000 = Iranattus Prószyński, 1992 (Prószyński, 2017b: 36)

Gen. Iranattus Prószyński, 1992 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03005

NB: considered a senior synonym of Monomotapa Wesolowska, 2000a: 159 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03081] (type M. principalis Wesołowska, 2000) by Prószyński, 2017b: 36.

Iranattus principalis (Wesołowska, 2000) | | Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zimbabwe urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034711

Monomotapa principalis Wesołowska, 2000a: 160, f. 42-46 (Dm) Original description

Monomotapa principalis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 581, f. 96-98, 229-230 (m)

Iranattus principalis Prószyński, 2017b: 36, f. 14K, 17F (m, T from Monomotapa)

Iranattus principalis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 47, f. 29A-D, 30A-D (Df)

Iranattus principalis Marathe et al., 2024: 535, f. 2-19 (mf)

Iranattus rectangularis Prószyński, 1992 | | Iran, India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034114

Iranattus rectangularis Prószyński, 1992a: 97, f. 35-40 (Dm) Original description

Iranattus rectangularis Prószyński, 2017b: 33, f. 14K1 (m)

Iranattus rectangularis Marathe et al., 2024: 537, f. 20-41 (m, Df)