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.

Gen. Lechia Żabka, 1985 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03024

N.B.: considered a synonym of Laufeia Simon, 1889 by transfer of the type species, Lechia squamata, by Logunov & Jäger, 2015: 356, revalidated by Prószyński, 2019: 122.

Lechia minuta (Prószyński, 1992) | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033301

Euophrys minutus Prószyński, 1992b: 172, f. 30-32 (Df) Original description

Lechia minuta Prószyński, 2017b: 75, f. 32L (f, T from Euophrys, but Lechia not revalidated, therefore assigned to Laufeia, of which Lechia is a synonym)

Lechia minuta Prószyński, 2019: 117 (T from Laufeia, N.B.: only provisionally, belongs neither to Laufeia nor to Euophrys)

Lechia squamata Żabka, 1985 | | China, Vietnam urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034225

Lechia squamata Żabka, 1985: 236, f. 259-262 (Df) Original description

Lechia squamata Song & Chai, 1991: 20, f. 9A-B (f)

Lechia squamata Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 533, f. 302G-H (f)

Laufeia squamata Logunov & Jäger, 2015: 355, f. 37-39 (f, T from Lechia; m f. 33-36 see Laufeia zhangae)

Lechia squamata Prószyński, 2017b: 75, f. 38A1 (f, T from Laufeia, but Lechia not revalidated; m see Laufeia zhangae)

Lechia squamata Prószyński, 2019: 122, f. 1P-Q, Y-Z (f, T from Laufeia; m f. 1C see Laufeia zhangae)

Lechia squamata Peng, 2020: 207, f. 141a-b (f)