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:

Neera Simon, 1876 = Neaetha Simon, 1885 (Simon, 1885c: 316, preoccupied, replacement name)

Homonym replaced:

Neera Simon, 1876 -- see Neaetha Simon, 1885 - in Simon, 1885c

Gen. Neaetha Simon, 1885 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03091

N.B.: replacement name for Neera Simon, 1876a: 200 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05779], preoccupied in Diptera by Rondani, 1861.

Transferred to other genera:

Neaetha aegyptiaca Denis, 1947 -- see Hyllus

Neaetha heteropogon Simon, 1909 -- see Cembalea

Neaetha quadrimaculata Lawrence, 1927 -- see Bianor

In synonymy:

Neaetha albibarbis (Simon, 1871) = Neaetha membrosa Simon, 1868 (Logunov, 1996d: 519)

Neaetha murphyorum Prószyński, 2000 = Neaetha oculata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 (Wesołowska & van Harten, 2010: 40)

Neaetha absheronica Logunov & Guseinov, 2002 | | Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Azerbaijan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038270

Neaetha membrosa Metzner, 1999: 120, f. 85d-e (f, misidentified, per Logunov, 2015a: 71 and Lecigne, 2016: 106)

Neaetha absheronica Logunov & Guseinov, 2002: 252, f. 1-3 (Dm) Original description

Neaetha absheronica Coşar, Danişman & Yıldıran, 2014: 89, f. 6A-B, 7A-C (m)

Neaetha absheronica Lecigne, 2016a: 104, f. 4A-I, 4L-P, 11L-M (m, Df)

Neaetha absheronica Schäfer & Klimsa, 2017: 65, f. 9 (m)

Neaetha alborufula Caporiacco, 1949 | | Kenya urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034945

Neaetha alborufula Caporiacco, 1949a: 476, f. 91 (Dm) Original description

Neaetha bulawayoensis (Wesołowska, 2000) | | Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lesotho urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035261

Pellenes bulawayoensis Wesołowska, 2000a: 163, f. 52-56 (Dm) Original description

Pellenes bulawayoensis Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 202, f. 110-112 (m)

Pellenes bulawayoensis Haddad & Wesołowska, 2011: 93, f. 106-107, 116-122 (m, Df)

Neaetha bulawayoensis Azevedo, Hedin & Maddison, 2024: 12 (T from Pellenes)

Neaetha catula Simon, 1886 | | East, Southern Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034946

Neaetha catula Simon, 1886g: 391 (Dm) Original description

Neaetha catula Caporiacco, 1949a: 475, f. 90 (Df)

Neaetha catulina Berland & Millot, 1941 | | Mali urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034947

Neaetha catulina Berland & Millot, 1941: 308, f. 9-10 (Dm) Original description

Neaetha cerussata (Simon, 1868) | | Italy (Sicily), Greece, Egypt, Syria urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034948

Attus cerussatus Simon, 1868b: 615 (Dm) Original description

Neaetha cerussata Simon, 1885c: 316

Neaetha cerussata Prószyński, 1984a: 93 (mf)

Neaetha fulvopilosa (Lucas, 1846) | | Algeria, Tunisia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034949

Salticus fulvo-pilosus Lucas, 1846: 171, pl. 9, f. 1 (Df) Original description

Neaetha fulvopilosa Simon, 1885i: 5

Neaetha irreperta Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 | | Tanzania, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034950

Neaetha irreperta Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 76, f. 200-204 (Dmf) Original description

Neaetha irreperta Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018: 898, f. 112, 117-118 (f)

Neaetha maxima Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011 | | Ivory Coast, Nigeria urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044529

Neaetha maxima Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 587, f. 124-125, 231 (Df) Original description

Neaetha membrosa (Simon, 1868) | | Western Mediterranean to Germany urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034951

Attus membrosus Simon, 1868b: 617 (Dmf) Original description

Attus albibarbis Simon, 1871a: 225 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056088]

Ballus membrosus Thorell, 1875c: 182

Neera membrosa Simon, 1876a: 200

Neaetha membrosa Peckham & Peckham, 1895: 174, pl. 16, f. 7 (f)

Neaetha albibarbis Simon, 1901a: 667

Neaetha membrosa Simon, 1903a: 671, f. 783

Neaetha membrosa Simon, 1937: 1234, 1269, f. 2000-2002 (mf)

Neaetha membrosa Cantarella, 1982b: 247, f. 20-22 (mf)

Neaetha membrosa Prószyński, 1984a: 91-92 (mf)

Neaetha membrosa Noflatscher, 1993: 283, f. 12 (m)

Neaetha membrosa Logunov, 1996d: 519, f. 1-15 (mf, S of Neaetha albibarbis)

Neaetha membrosa Metzner, 1999: 120, f. 85a-c, f-j (m only; f = N. absheronica)

Neaetha membrosa Lecigne, 2016a: 107, f. 4J-K, 4Q-S (mf)

Neaetha membrosa Schäfer & Klimsa, 2017: 65, f. 8 (m)

Neaetha oculata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) | | Botswana, Nigeria, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, United Arab Emirates urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034953

Attus oculatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876b: 612, pl. 60, f. 90 (Dmf) Original description

Neaetha oculata Simon, 1901a: 667

Neaetha oculata Prószyński, 1984a: 92 (mf)

Neaetha oculata Prószyński, 1993: 39, f. 20-27 (mf)

Neaetha oculata Logunov, 1996d: 522, f. 18-23 (mf)

Neaetha murphyorum Prószyński, 2000: 256, f. 93-95 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034952]

Neaetha oculata Prószyński, 2003: 111, f. 456-458 (mf)

Neaetha murphyorum Prószyński, 2003: 109, f. 453-455 (m)

Neaetha oculata Wesołowska & van Harten, 2010: 40, pl. 8, f. 40-43 (mf, S of Neaetha murphyorum)

Neaetha oculata Prószyński, 2017b: 51, f. 22H,M,W,Y (mf)

Neaetha ravoisiaei (Lucas, 1846) | | Algeria, East Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034954

Salticus ravoisiaei Lucas, 1846: 165, pl. 8, f. 4 (Df; correct original spelling, latinized patronym for Ravoisié = Ravoisiaeus) Original description

Calliethera ravoisoei Simon, 1864: 328

Neaetha ravoisiae Strand, 1907n: 720

Neaetha amanicola Strand, 1907n: 720 (m, provisional name)

Neaetha tomkovichi Logunov, 2019 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051035

Neaetha tomkovichi Logunov, 2019: 105, f. 18-31 (Dmf) Original description

Neaetha wesolowskae Żabka & Patoleta, 2020 | | Thailand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052718

Neaetha wesolowskae Żabka & Patoleta, 2020: 379, f. 21-33 (Dmf) Original description