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. Mexcala G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1902 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03072

In synonymy:

Mexcala cincta (Denis, 1947) = Mexcala nigrocyanea Simon, 1886 (Clark, 1974: 15, sub Cosmophasis)

Mexcala natalensis (Lawrence, 1942) = Mexcala elegans G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 (Wesołowska, 2009a: 158)

Mexcala tristis (Berland & Millot, 1941) = Mexcala caerulea Simon, 1901 (Clark, 1974: 14, sub Cosmophasis)

Mexcala agilis Lawrence, 1928 | | Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Namibia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034662

Mexcala agilis Lawrence, 1928: 261, pl. 22, f. 42 (Dm) Original description

Mexcala agilis Wesołowska, 2009a: 153, f. 3-14 (m)

Mexcala angolensis Wesołowska, 2009 | | Angola urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042445

Mexcala angolensis Wesołowska, 2009a: 155, f. 15-17 (Dm) Original description

Mexcala caerulea (Simon, 1901) | | Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032939

Cosmophasis caerulea Simon, 1901c: 148 (Dm) Original description

Cosmophasis tristis Berland & Millot, 1941: 319, f. 21 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056231]

Cosmophasis caerulea Clark, 1974: 14, f. 10-11 (mf, S of Cosmophasis tristis)

Mexcala caerulea Wesołowska, 2009a: 157, f. 18-29 (mf, T from Cosmophasis)

Mexcala caerulea Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 59, f. 36A-B (f)

Mexcala elegans G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 | | Ivory Coast, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034663

Mexcala elegans Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 248, pl. 29, f. 2 (Dm) Original description

Cosmophasis natalensis Lawrence, 1942: 184, f. 30 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032961]

Mexcala natalensis Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 197, f. 92-97 (mf, T from Cosmophasis)

Mexcala elegans Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 56, f. 101-104, 247 (mf)

Mexcala elegans Wesołowska, 2009a: 158, f. 2, 30-46 (mf, S of Cosmophasis natalensis)

Mexcala farsensis Logunov, 2001 | | Iran urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038265

Mexcala farsensis Logunov, 2001b: 61, f. 1-3 (Df; N.B.: misplaced, per Wesolowska, 2009a: 185) Original description

Mexcala fizi Wesołowska, 2009 | | Congo, Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042446

Mexcala fizi Wesołowska, 2009a: 162, f. 47-49 (Dm) Original description

Mexcala formosa Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 | | Ethiopia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041759

Mexcala formosa Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008: 24, f. 95-98 (Dm) Original description

Mexcala formosa Wesołowska, 2009a: 163, f. 50-52 (Dm)

Mexcala kabondo Wesołowska, 2009 | | Congo, Malawi, Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042447

Mexcala kabondo Wesołowska, 2009a: 164, f. 53-61 (Df) Original description

Mexcala macilenta Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 | | Ethiopia, Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034664

Mexcala macilenta Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 68, f. 181-184 (Dmf) Original description

Mexcala macilenta Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008: 26, f. 99-101, 210 (f)

Mexcala macilenta Wesołowska, 2009a: 166, f. 62-66 (mf)

Mexcala meridiana Wesołowska, 2009 | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042448

Mexcala meridiana Wesołowska, 2009a: 168, f. 67-68 (Df) Original description

Mexcala monstrata Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994 | | Egypt, Yemen urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034665

Mexcala monstrata Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994: 49, f. 105-107 (Df) Original description

Mexcala monstrata Wesołowska & van Harten, 2007: 228, f. 111-117 (f, Dm)

Mexcala monstrata Wesołowska, 2009a: 169, f. 1, 69-76 (mf)

Mexcala monstrata Metwally et al., 2019: 4, f. 1a-c, 2-5 (m)

Mexcala namibica Wesołowska, 2009 | | Namibia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042449

Mexcala namibica Wesołowska, 2009a: 170, f. 77-79 (Dm) Original description

Mexcala nigrocyanea (Simon, 1886) | | Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032962

Cyllobelus nigro-cyaneus Simon, 1886g: 390 (Df) Original description

Cosmophasis nigrocyanea Simon, 1901a: 548

Cosmophasis cincta Denis, 1947a: 67, pl. 4, f. 9 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056230]

Cosmophasis nigrocyanea Clark, 1974: 14, f. 16-17 (S of Cosmophasis cincta)

Mexcala nigrocyanea Wesołowska, 2009a: 171, f. 80-83 (f, T from Cosmophasis)

Mexcala ovambo Wesołowska, 2009 | | Namibia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042450

Mexcala ovambo Wesołowska, 2009a: 173, f. 84-87 (Df) Original description

Mexcala quadrimaculata (Lawrence, 1942) | | Zimbabwe, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032970

Cosmophasis quadrimaculatus Lawrence, 1942: 186, f. 31 (Df) Original description

Cosmophasis quadrimaculata Roewer, 1955c: 1151

Cosmophasis quadrimaculata Clark, 1974: 15, f. 18-19 (f)

Mexcala quadrimaculata Wesołowska, 2009a: 174, f. 88-94 (Tf from Cosmophasis)

Mexcala rufa G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1902 | | Namibia, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034666

Mexcala rufa Peckham & Peckham, 1902: 333 (Dm) Original description

Mexcala rufa Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 247, pl. 29, f. 1 (m)

Mexcala rufa Prószyński, 1984a: 83 (m)

Mexcala rufa Wesołowska, 2009a: 176, f. 95-99 (m)

Mexcala rufa Prószyński, 2017b: 31, f. 13J (m)

Mexcala signata Wesołowska, 2009 | | Kenya, Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042451

Mexcala signata Wesołowska, 2009a: 177, f. 100-103 (Df) Original description

Mexcala smaragdina Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012 | | Nigeria urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:045717

Mexcala smaragdina Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012: 752, f. 66-69, 127 (Dm) Original description

Mexcala synagelese Wesołowska, 2009 | | Sudan, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Congo, Angola urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042452

Mexcala synagelese Wesołowska, 2009a: 179, f. 104-113 (Dmf) Original description

Mexcala torquata Wesołowska, 2009 | | Guinea, Ivory Coast urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042453

Mexcala torquata Wesołowska, 2009a: 181, f. 114-119 (Df) Original description

Mexcala torquata Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 60, f. 38A-G (Dm, f)

Mexcala vicina Wesołowska, 2009 | | Cameroon, Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042454

Mexcala vicina Wesołowska, 2009a: 182, f. 120-122 (Dm) Original description