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. Ligurra Simon, 1903 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03031

Transferred to other genera:

Ligurra albostriata (Thorell, 1891) -- see Rhene

Ligurra opelli Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997 -- see Iona

In synonymy:

Ligurra severa (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901, T from Simaetha) = Ligurra latidens Doleschall, 1859 (Simon, 1903a: 838)

Ligurra aheneola (Simon, 1886) | | Singapore urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034250

Simaetha aheneola Simon, 1886c: 454 (Df) Original description

Ligurra aheneola Simon, 1905c: 73 (removed from S of Ligurra latidens, rejecting Simon, 1903a: 838)

Simaetha aheneola Frétey, 2023: 126 (year of description corrected)

Ligurra latidens (Doleschall, 1859) | | Malaysia to Indonesia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034251

Salticus latidens Doleschall, 1859: 21, pl. 10, f. 6 (Df) Original description

Homalattus latidens Thorell, 1892a: 262 (Dm)

Simaetha severa Peckham & Peckham, 1901a: 307 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061607]

Ligurra latidens Simon, 1903a: 838, 842, f. 986-987 (m, T from Homalattus, S of Simaetha severa and S. aheneola; S. aheneola revalidated by Simon, 1905c: 73)

Ligurra latidens Prószyński, 1983b: 287, f. 17-18 (m)

Ligurra latidens Prószyński, 1984a: 77 (mf)

Ligurra latidens Prószyński, 2017b: 18, f. 6F, 7A-B (mf)

Ligurra moniensis Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010 | | Indonesia (Flores) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043601

Ligurra moniensis Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010: 173, f. 101-106 (Dm) Original description