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. Mopsus Karsch, 1878 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03084

type Mopsus mormon Karsch, 1878; gender masculine

In synonymy:

Mopsus penicillatus (Keyserling, 1881) = Mopsus mormon Karsch, 1878 (Żabka, 1991c: 41)

Mopsus mormon Karsch, 1878 | | New Guinea (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea), Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034714 TYPE SPECIES

Mopsus mormon Karsch, 1878d: 31 (Dm) Original description

Ascyltus penicillatus Karsch, 1878d: 30 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058160]

Ascyltus penicillatus Keyserling, 1881a: 1319, pl. 112, f. 4-5 (mf)

Mopsus penicillatus Keyserling, 1883b: 1476

Mopsus mormon Simon, 1903a: 687, f. 816-818 (m)

Mopsus mormon Chrysanthus, 1968: 63, f. 70-74 (m, Df)

Mopsus penicillatus Prószyński, 1984a: 3 (m)

Mopsus mormon Prószyński, 1984a: 167 (m)

Mopsus mormon Davies & Żabka, 1989: 250, pl. 51 (mf)

Mopsus mormon Żabka, 1991c: 41 (S of Mopsus penicillatus)

Mopsus mormon Żabka, 2000: 696, f. 2A-B (m)

Mopsus mormon Prószyński, 2017b: 22, f. 8H, 9E (mf)

Mopsus mormon Hill, 2025d: 1, f. 1.1-2, 2.1-6, 3.1-6, 5.1-11, 6.1-7, 6.9, 6.11-17, 7.1-7, unnumbered figs on pp. 16, 21, 22 (mf)