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. Lophostica Simon, 1902 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03034

type Lophostica mauriciana Simon, 1902; gender feminine

Lophostica mauriciana Simon, 1902 | | Mauritius, Réunion urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034257 TYPE SPECIES

Lophostica mauriciana Simon, 1902d: 390 (Df) Original description

Lophostica mauriciana Simon, 1903a: 810, f. 950-951

Lophostica mauriciana Duhem, Ledoux & Wesołowska, 2005: 530, f. 1-11 (f, Dm)

Lophostica mauriciana Ledoux, 2007: 19, f. 3D, 11A, 12A-G, 13B (mf)

Lophostica mauriciana Prószyński, 2017b: 77, f. 33G (mf)

Lophostica minor Ledoux, 2007 | | Réunion urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041232

Lophostica minor Ledoux, 2007: 22, f. 11D, 16A-B (Dm; N.B.: misplaced in this genus, per Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014: 32) Original description

Lophostica nova Ledoux, 2007 | | Réunion urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041233

Lophostica nova Ledoux, 2007: 20, f. 3F, 11B-C, 15A-E (Dmf; N.B.: misplaced in this genus, per Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014: 32) Original description