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.

In synonymy:

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

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

type Iranattus rectangularis Prószyński, 1992; gender masculine

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, South Africa 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., 2024a: 535, f. 2-19 (mf)

Iranattus principalis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 71, p. 70: f. 1-2, p. 71: f. 1-5 (mf)

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

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

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

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