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. Malloneta Simon, 1902 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03051

type Malloneta guineensis Simon, 1902; gender feminine

Transferred to other genera:

Malloneta interrogationis Strand, 1907 -- see Hyllus

In synonymy:

Malloneta jeanneli (Berland & Millot, 1941, T from Viciria) = Malloneta guineensis Simon, 1902 (Clark, 1974: 18)

Malloneta mondoni (Berland & Millot, 1941, T from Brancus) = Malloneta guineensis Simon, 1902 (Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 55)

Malloneta guineensis Simon, 1902 | | Sierre Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Central African Rep., Gabon, Mozambique urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034405 TYPE SPECIES

Malloneta guineensis Simon, 1902a: 405 (Dm) Original description

Malloneta guineensis Simon, 1903a: 737, f. 878-879 (m)

Viciria mondoni Berland & Millot, 1941: 384, f. 76C-D (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036755]

Viciria jeanneli Berland & Millot, 1941: 382, f. 79-80 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056025]

Malloneta guineensis Clark, 1974: 18 (S of Viciria jeanneli)

Malloneta guinensis Prószyński, 1987: 62 (m)

Brancus mondoni Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012: 740, f. 28-31, 119 (f, T from Viciria)

Malonettta guineensis Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012: 750, f. 60-62, 125 (m, lapsus)

Malloneta guineensis Prószyński, 2017b: 107, f. 47K (m)

Malloneta guineensis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 55 (S of Brancus mondoni)

Malloneta miranda Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026 | | Central African Rep. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066643

Malloneta miranda Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026: 24, f. 19A-E, 20A-F, 21A-C (Dm) Original description