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. Pachyballus Simon, 1900 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03113

Transferred to other genera:

Pachyballus oyo Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011 -- see Peplometus

Pachyballus rotundus Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994 -- see Planiemen

In synonymy:

Pachyballus cordiformis Berland & Millot, 1941 = Pachyballus flavipes Simon, 1909 (Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020: 59)

Pachyballus flavipes aurantius Caporiacco, 1949 = Pachyballus flavipes Simon, 1909 (Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020: 59)

Pachyballus caelestis Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020 | | DR Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052045

Pachyballus caelestis Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020: 53, f. 9-17 (Dmf) Original description

Pachyballus castaneus Simon, 1900 | | Zimbabwe, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035101

Pachyballus castaneus Simon, 1900b: 400 (Df) Original description

Pachyballus castaneus Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020: 55, f. 6, 18-28, 129 (Dm, f)

Pachyballus castaneus van der Walt et al., 2022: 7, f. 1-10, 13-14 (mf)

Pachyballus flavipes Simon, 1909 | | Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035103

Pachyballus flavipes Simon, 1909f: 414 (Df) Original description

Pachyballus flavipes Lessert, 1925a: 434, f. 7-9 (f)

Pachyballus cordiformis Berland & Millot, 1941: 396, f. 90 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035102]

Pachyballus flavipes aurantius Caporiacco, 1949a: 464 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035104]

Pachyballus flavipes Wanless & Clark, 1975: 290, f. 27-28 (f)

Pachyballus cordiformis Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011: 87, f. 40-45 (m)

Pachyballus flavipes Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020: 59, f. 1, 3, 5, 29-57 (mf, S of Pachyballus cordiforme and P. flavipes aurantius)

Pachyballus flavipes Azarkina & Haddad, 2020: 17, f. 31-42, 54 (m)

Pachyballus gambeyi (Simon, 1880) | | New Caledonia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035105

Homalattus gambeyi Simon, 1880i: 166 (Dm) Original description

Pachyballus gambeyi Simon, 1901a: 485

Pachyballus gambeyi Prószyński, 1987: 73 (m)

Pachyballus gambeyi Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020: 64 (species inquirenda, belongs probably to another genus)

Pachyballus miniscutulus Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020 | | Ivory Coast, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052046

Pachyballus miniscutulus Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020: 65, f. 58-67 (Dmf) Original description

Pachyballus mombasensis Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020 | | Kenya urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052047

Pachyballus mombasensis Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020: 66, f. 68-74 (Dmf) Original description

Pachyballus ornatus Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020 | | DR Congo, Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052048

Pachyballus ornatus Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020: 70, f. 2, 75-97 (Dmf) Original description

Pachyballus ornatus Azarkina & Haddad, 2020: 18, f. 452 (m)

Pachyballus transversus Simon, 1900 | | Ethiopia, Somalia, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, Cameroon, Congo, DR Congo, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035107

Pachyballus transversus Simon, 1900b: 399 (Dm) Original description

Pachyballus transversus Simon, 1901a: 482, f. 570-571

Pachyballus transversus Berland & Millot, 1941: 397 (m)

Pachyballus transversus Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020: 72, f. 98-122, 191-192 (m, Df)

Pachyballus variegatus Lessert, 1925 | | Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035108

Pachyballus variegatus Lessert, 1925a: 437, f. 10-14 (Dmf) Original description

Pachyballus variegatus Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020: 77, f. 123-128 (mf)