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:

Bootes Peckham & Peckham, 1886 = Margaromma Keyserling, 1882 (Simon, 1901a: 657)

Hadrosoma Keyserling, 1882 = Margaromma Keyserling, 1882 (Simon, 1901a: 657)

Gen. Margaromma Keyserling, 1882 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03058

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Bootes G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1886: 330 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05624] (type Hadrosoma obscurum Keyserling, 1882) by Simon, 1901a: 657; Bootes is a replacement name for Hadrosoma Keyserling, 1882: 1418 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05623], preoccupied in Coleoptera by Agassiz, 1846; considered a senior synonym of Allohyllus Strand, 1911 by Heciak & Prószyński, 1984b: 411; Allohyllus was synonymized with Omoedus Thorell, 1881 by Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 26 (by transfer of the type species).

Transferred to other genera:

Margaromma albertisi (Thorell, 1881) -- see Zenodorus

Margaromma insultans (Thorell, 1881) -- see Omoedus

Margaromma marginatum Simon, 1902 -- see Zenodorus

Margaromma semirasum (Keyserling, 1882) -- see Zenodorus

Margaromma sexuale (Strand, 1911) -- see Omoedus

Margaromma torquatum Simon, 1902 -- see Omoedus

Nomen nudum:

Margaromma kochi Simon, 1901a: 654 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055245] , nomen nudum, no description, but see Prószyński, 1984a: 81 (mf, Indonesia/Moluccas)

Margaromma doreyanum (Walckenaer, 1837) | | New Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034438

Attus doreyanus Walckenaer, 1837: 459 (Df) Original description

Maevia doreyana Thorell, 1881: 488 (Dm)

Margaromma doreyana Prószyński, 1984a: 81 (Tmf from Telamonia per Roewer)

Margaromma funestum Keyserling, 1882 | | Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034439

Margaromma funestum Keyserling, 1882: 1347, pl. 114, f. 5-6 (Dmf) Original description

Margaromma funestum Davies & Żabka, 1989: 230, pl. 38 (f; Keyserling's m is misplaced)

Margaromma funesta Prószyński, 2017b: 77, f. 33R (mf)

Margaromma imperiosum Szombathy, 1915 | | New Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034440

Margaromma imperiosum Szombathy, 1915a: 480 (Dmf) Original description

Margaromma namukanum Roewer, 1944 | | Fiji urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034442

Margaromma namukana Roewer, 1944: 5, f. 1 (Df) Original description

Margaromma nitidum Thorell, 1899 | | Cameroon urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034443

Margaromma nitida Thorell, 1899: 99 (D) Original description

Margaromma nitida Prószyński, 1984a: 79 (f; N.B.: "nicht zu deuten!" per Roewer)

Margaromma obscurum (Keyserling, 1882) | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034444

Hadrosoma obscura Keyserling, 1882: 1418, pl. 120, f. 2 (Df) Original description

Bootes obscurum Peckham & Peckham, 1886: 330

Margaromma obscura Simon, 1901a: 654

Margaromma soligena Simon, 1901 | | New Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034447

Margaromma soligena Simon, 1901a: 649, f. 773-774 (Dm) Original description

Margaromma soligena Simon, 1902d: 35 (Dm)

Margaromma soligenum Żabka, 1988: 462, f. 110-113 (m, Df)

Margaromma spatiosum G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1907 | | Malaysia (Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034448

Margaromma spatiosa Peckham & Peckham, 1907: 629 (Dm) Original description