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.

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

type Lechia squamata Żabka, 1985; gender feminine

N.B.: considered a junior synonym of Laufeia Simon, 1889 by Logunov & Jäger, 2015: 356 (by transfer of the type species), revalidated by Prószyński, 2019: 122, revalidation confirmed and excluded from the Laufeia clade by Yu et al., 2024: 627.

Transferred to other genera:

Lechia minuta (Prószyński, 1992) -- see Tubalaxia

In synonymy:

Lechia manipur (Caleb, 2020, T from Phintelloides) = Lechia squamata Żabka, 1985 (Yang et al., 2026: 12)

Lechia scandens (Deeleman-Reinhold, Addink & Miller, 2024, T from Phintelloides) = Lechia squamata Żabka, 1985 (Yang et al., 2026: 12)

Lechia squamata Żabka, 1985 | | India, China, Vietnam, Malaysia (Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034225 TYPE SPECIES

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)

Phintelloides manipur Caleb, in Caleb & Acharya, 2020: 95, f. 1-8 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051871]

Phintelloides scandens Deeleman-Reinhold, Addink & Miller, 2024: 38, f. 12a-d, 13a-d, 14a-f, 15a-d, 16 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061970]

Lechia squamata Yang et al., 2026: 12, f. 1a-o, 2a, 3a, g (mf, S of Phintelloides manipur and P. scandens)