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:

Discocnemius Thorell, 1881 = Ligonipes Karsch, 1878 (Davies & Żabka, 1989: 200)

Haterius Simon, 1900 = Ligonipes Karsch, 1878 (Davies & Żabka, 1989: 200)

Gen. Ligonipes Karsch, 1878 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03030

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Discocnemius Thorell, 1881: 428 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05787] (type D. lacertosus Thorell, 1881) and Haterius Simon, 1900b: 403 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05788] (type D. semitectus Simon, 1900) by Davies & Żabka, 1989: 200; not a senior synonym of Rhombonotus L. Koch, 1879 (Davies & Żabka, 1989: 200) or Ohilimia Strand, 1911 (Gardzińska, 2006: 376, contra Żabka, 1988: 423).

Transferred to other genera:

Ligonipes albocingulatus (Simon, 1884) -- see Ohilimia

Ligonipes coccineopilosus (Simon, 1884) -- see Ohilimia

Ligonipes gracilipes (Strand, 1911) -- see Ohilimia

Ligonipes scutellatus (Kritscher, 1959) -- see Ohilimia

Ligonipes flavipes Rainbow, 1920 | | Australia (Norfolk Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034243

Ligonipes flavipes Rainbow, 1920b: 263, pl. 30, f. 100-102 (Df) Original description

Ligonipes illustris Karsch, 1878 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034244

Ligonipes illustris Karsch, 1878d: 26 (Df) Original description

Ligonipes illustris Peckham & Peckham, 1886: 303

Ligonipes illustris Simon, 1901a: 493

Ligonipes illustris Prószyński, 1984a: 158

Ligonipes lacertosus (Thorell, 1881) | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034245

Discocnemius lacertosus Thorell, 1881: 429 (Df) Original description

Discocnemius lacertosus Kritscher, 1959: 6, f. 3 (f)

Discocnemius lacertosus Prószyński, 1984a: 35 (f)

Ligonipes lacertosus Davies & Żabka, 1989: 200, pl. 8A (f)

Ligonipes lacertosus Prószyński, 2017b: 103, f. 45G (f)

Ligonipes semitectus (Simon, 1900) | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034247

Haterius semitectus Simon, 1900b: 403 (Df) Original description

Haterius semitectus Simon, 1901a: 493, f. 579

Ligonipes semitectus Davies & Żabka, 1989: 200, pl. 8B (f)

Ligonipes similis (van Hasselt, 1882) | | Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034248

Rhombonotus similis van Hasselt, 1882: 54, pl. 5, f.17 (Df) Original description

Rhomochirus similis Thorell, 1892a: 473

Ligonipes synageloides (Szombathy, 1915) | | New Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034249

Haterius synageloides Szombathy, 1915a: 476, f. 7 (Df) Original description