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:

Cyllobelus Simon, 1885 = Natta Karsch, 1879 (Prószyński, 1985: 77)

Gen. Natta Karsch, 1879 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03089

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Cyllobelus Simon, 1886g: 390 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05778] (type C. ciliatus Simon, 1886) by Prószyński, 1985: 77.

Transferred to other genera:

Natta flavocinctus (Simon, 1901) -- see Siler

Natta immemorata Wesołowska, 1993 -- see Heliophanus

Natta semiglaucus (Simon, 1901) -- see Siler

Natta severus (Simon, 1901) -- see Siler

In synonymy:

Natta australis (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1902) = Natta chionogastra Simon, 1901 (Wesołowska, 1993a: 18)

Natta moschensis (Caporiacco, 1947, T from Pochyta) = Natta horizontalis Karsch, 1879 (Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021: 38)

Natta rufopicta (Simon, 1909) = Natta horizontalis Karsch, 1879 (Wesołowska, 1993a: 25)

Natta tristellata (Simon, 1906) = Natta horizontalis Karsch, 1879 (Wesołowska, 1993a: 26)

Nomina dubia:

Natta ciliata (Simon, 1886g: 390, f, Ethiopia, originally in Cyllobelus) -- Wesołowska, 1993a: 17

Natta lucipeta (Simon, 1886g: 391, m, Tanzania/Zanzibar, originally in Cyllobelus) -- Wesołowska, 1993a: 17

Natta splendidissima (Caporiacco, 1949a: 479, f, Kenya, originally in Cyllobelus) -- Wesołowska, 1993a: 17

Natta chionogastra (Simon, 1901) | | Ivory Coast, Tropical Africa, Namibia, South Africa, Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034931

Cyllobelus chionogaster Simon, 1901a: 541, 549, f. 665 (m)

Cyllobelus chionogaster Simon, 1901c: 151 (Dmf) Original description

Cyllobelus australis Peckham & Peckham, 1902: 334 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056082]

Cyllobelus australis Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 194, pl. 21, f. 2 (f)

Cyllobelus chionogaster Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 195, pl. 21, f. 1 (m)

Natta chionogastra Prószyński, 1984a: 87-88 (mf, T from Cyllobelus)

Natta chionogastra Prószyński, 1985: 80, f. 39-41, 45, 47 (mf)

Natta chionogastra Wesołowska, 1993a: 18, f. 1-16 (mf, S of Cyllobelus australis)

Natta horizontalis Karsch, 1879 | | Africa, Yemen urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034932

Natta horizontalis Karsch, 1879a: 362 (D) Original description

Cyllobelus rufopictus Simon, 1901a: 549 (nomen nudum)

Cyllobelus tristellatus Simon, 1906a: 1171 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056084]

Cyllobelus rufopictus Simon, 1909f: 420 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056083]

Cyllobelus tristellatus Lessert, 1936: 289, f. 84 (m)

Cyllobelus rufopictus Berland & Millot, 1941: 320, f. 22 (f)

Cyllobelus rufopictus Lawrence, 1942: 187, f. 32 (mf)

Pochyta moschensis Caporiacco, 1947c: 249, pl. 2, f. 76 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035691]

Natta horizontalis Roewer, 1955c: 1598 (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium)

Natta tristellata Prószyński, 1984a: 87 (T from Cyllobelus)

Natta rufopicta Prószyński, 1984a: 88 (T from Cyllobelus)

Natta horizontalis Prószyński, 1984a: 89 (m, removed from nomen dubium)

Natta horizontalis Prószyński, 1985: 78, f. 32, 35-38 (m)

Natta rufopicta Prószyński, 1985: 82, f. 46, 48 (f)

Natta tristellata Prószyński, 1985: 83, f. 42-44 (m)

Natta horizontalis Próchniewicz, 1989: 218, f. 33-38 (m)

Natta horizontalis Wesołowska, 1993a: 25, f. 17-41 (mf, S of Natta rufopicta and N. tristellata)

Natta horizontalis Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 201, f. 107-109 (mf)

Natta horizontalis Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021: 38 (S of Pochyta moschensis)