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. Nigorella Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03814

In synonymy:

Nigorella hunanensis (Peng, Xie & Kim, 1993) = Nigorella hirticeps Song & Chai, 1992 (Lin et al., 2023b: 11)

Nomen dubium:

Nigorella plebeja (L. Koch, 1875b: 90, pl. 7, f. 9, f, north-eastern Africa, originally in Euophrys) -- Wesołowska, 2009c: 521

Nigorella aethiopica Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 | | Ethiopia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041760

Nigorella aethiopica Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008: 36, f. 130-143 (Dmf) Original description

Nigorella aethiopica Wesołowska, 2009c: 518, f. 2-8 (mf)

Nigorella aethiopica Prószyński, 2018b: 157, f. 17N (mf)

Nigorella albimana (Simon, 1902) | | West, Central Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042968

Hasarius plebejus Karsch, 1879a: 361 (m; misidentified per Prószyński, 2018b: 158)

Pachypoessa albimana Simon, 1902a: 399 (Dm) Original description

Pachypoessa albimana Lessert, 1927: 452, f. 29A-C (m, Df)

Pachypoessa plebeja Prószyński, 1987: 71-72 (m, T from Euophrys, f see Nigorella plebeja, S of P. albimana, rejected by Wesołowska, 2009c: 519; misidentified per Wesołowska, 2009c: 519)

Pachypoessa plebeja Heinrichs & Barrion, 2004: 218, f. 660-661 (m)

Nigorella albimana Wesołowska, 2009c: 519, f. 9-15, 30, 32 (mf, removed from S of N. plebeja, contra Prószyński, 1987: 71)

Nigorella albimana Prószyński, 2017b: 53, f. 23M (mf)

Nigorella albimana Prószyński, 2018b: 157, f. 16A-A1, 17G-I (mf)

Nigorella hirsuta Wesołowska, 2009 | | Zimbabwe, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042969

Nigorella plebeja Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008: 35 (Tmf from Pachypoessa, misidentified)

Nigorella plebeja Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 66, f. 127-131, 220 (mf, misidentified)

Nigorella hirsuta Wesołowska, 2009c: 521, f. 16-25, 31, 33 (Dmf) Original description

Nigorella hirsuta Prószyński, 2018b: 157, f. 16B-B1, 17J-K (mf)

Nigorella hirticeps (Song & Chai, 1992) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033402

Pharacocerus hirticeps Song & Chai, 1992: 80, f. 7A-C (Dm) Original description

Evarcha hunanensis Peng, Xie & Kim, 1993: 9, f. 12-15 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033404]

Pharacocerus hirticeps Song & Li, 1997: 436, f. 46A-C (m)

Evarcha hirticeps Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 510, f. 294K-L (Tm from Pharacocerus)

Evarcha hunanensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 510, f. 294M-N (m)

Evarcha hirticeps Yin et al., 2012: 1364, f. 740a-d (m, S of E. hunanensis, rejected by Prószyński, 2018b: 157)

Evarcha hirticeps Zha & Zhang, 2014: 83, f. 1-10 (m, Df)

Nigorella hunanensis Prószyński, 2018b: 157, f. 18B-C (m, removed from S of Evarcha hirticeps contra Yin et al., 2012: 1364, T from Evarcha)

Nigorella hirticeps Prószyński, 2018b: 157, f. 16C-D,C1-D1, 17D, 18A,D-E (mf, T from Evarcha, S of E. hunanensis rejected)

Evarcha hirticeps Peng, 2020: 132, f. 82a-d (m)

Nigorella hirticeps Lin et al., 2023b: 11, f. 11A-B, 12A-C (m, S of Nigorella hunanensis confirmed)

Nigorella manica (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903) | | Zimbabwe urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042970

Philaeus manicus Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 205, pl. 24, f. 1 (Dm) Original description

Nigorella manica Wesołowska, 2009c: 523, f. 26-29 (m, removed from S of N. albimana, contra Lessert, 1927: 452 [with '?'])

Nigorella manica Prószyński, 2018b: 157, f. 17L-M (m)

Nigorella mengla Lin & Li, 2020 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052127

Nigorella mengla Lin & Li, 2020c: 114, f. 12A-E, 13A-E (Dmf) Original description

Nigorella orientalis (Song & Chai, 1992) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033419

Pharacocerus orientalis Song & Chai, 1992: 80, f. 8A-D (Dm) Original description

Pharacocerus orientalis Yang & Tang, 1995: 142, f. 1-4 (Df)

Pharacocerus orientalis Song & Li, 1997: 436, f. 47A-D (m)

Evarcha orientalis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 510, f. 294O-P, 295A-B (mf, T from Pharacocerus)

Evalba orientalis Prószyński, 2018b: 148

Evarcha orientalis Peng, 2020: 138, f. 87a-h (mf; includes Eνarcha sichuanensis [now in Nigorella], but without stating a S)

Nigorella orientalis Lin et al., 2023b: 16, f. 13A-B, 14A-C (m, T from Evarcha, is different from Eνarcha sichuanensis)

Nigorella petrae (Prószyński, 1992) | | Thailand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033422

Evarcha petrae Prószyński, 1992a: 93, f. 8-12 (Dm) Original description

Nigorella [?] petrae Prószyński, 2018b: 157, f. 18J (m, T from Evarcha)

Nigorella sichuanensis (Peng, Xie & Kim, 1993) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033431

Evarcha sichuanensis Peng, Xie & Kim, 1993: 11, f. 22-29 (Dmf) Original description

Evarcha sichuanensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 511, f. 295H, 296G-H (mf)

Nigorella sichuanensis Prószyński, 2018b: 157, f. 18I (mf, T from Evarcha) [but on p. 155 as "Evarcha [?] sichuanensis"]