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. Onomastus Simon, 1900 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03104

type Onomastus nigricauda Simon, 1900; gender masculine

Onomastus brahmagiri Jose & Benjamin, 2026 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:067237

Onomastus brahmagiri Jose & Benjamin, in Jose, Benjamin & Sudhikumar, 2026: 509, f. 1A-H, 2A-E, 7D (Dmf) Original description

Onomastus chenae Lin & Li, 2020 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052128

Onomastus chenae Lin & Li, 2020c: 117, f. 14A-C, 15A-F (Dmf) Original description

Onomastus complexipalpis Wanless, 1980 | | Indonesia (Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035046

Onomastus complexipalpis Wanless, 1980c: 187, f. 4A-F (Dm) Original description

Onomastus complexipalpis Benjamin, 2010: 722, f. 2A-H, 3A-B (m)

Onomastus complexipalpis Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013: 134, f. 89-90, 97-99, 106-107 (mf)

Onomastus complexipalpis Prószyński, 2017b: 125, f. 54M (mf)

Onomastus corbetensis Benjamin & Kanesharatnam, 2016 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048937

Onomastus corbetensis Benjamin & Kanesharatnam, 2016: 436, f. 4A-D, 5A-D, 6A-E (Dmf) Original description

Onomastus danum Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 | | Malaysia (Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:046037

Onomastus danum Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013: 135, f. 91-92, 95-96, 102-103 (Dmf) Original description

Onomastus danum Prószyński, 2017b: 125, f. 54N (mf)

Onomastus indra Benjamin, 2010 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043342

Onomastus indra Benjamin, 2010: 724, f. 4A-E (Dmf) Original description

Onomastus jamestaylori Benjamin & Kanesharatnam, 2016 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048936

Onomastus jamestaylori Benjamin & Kanesharatnam, 2016: 433, f. 1A-D, 2A-D, 3A-F (Dmf) Original description

Onomastus kaharian Benjamin, 2010 | | Thailand, Indonesia (Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043343

Onomastus kaharian Benjamin, 2010: 724, f. 5A-E, 6A-F (Dmf) Original description

Onomastus kaharian Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013: 138, f. 93-94, 100-101 (mf)

Onomastus kaharian Prószyński, 2017b: 125, f. 54O (mf)

Onomastus kanoi Ono, 1995 | | Japan (Ryukyu Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035047

Onomustus kanoi Ono, 1995c: 165, f. 16-21, 23 (Dm) Original description

Onomastus kanoi Ono, Ikeda & Kono, 2009: 562, f. 1-4 (m)

Onomastus kanoi Benjamin, 2010: 728, f. 7A-F (m)

Onomastus kanoi Suguro, 2016b: 81, f. 1-4 (Df)

Onomastus maskeliya Benjamin & Kanesharatnam, 2016 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048938

Onomastus maskeliya Benjamin & Kanesharatnam, 2016: 440, f. 7A-D, 8A-D, 9A-E (Dmf) Original description

Onomastus nigricauda Simon, 1900 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035048 TYPE SPECIES

Onomastus nigricauda Simon, 1900d: 29 (Dm) Original description

Onomastus nigricauda Simon, 1901a: 400, f. 398 (m)

Onomastus nigricauda Wanless, 1980c: 181, f. 1A-G (m, Df)

Onomastus nigricauda Benjamin, 2010: 729, f. 8A-D, 9A-B, 10A-E, 11A-G, 12A-C, 13A-B (mf)

Onomastus nigrimaculatus Zhang & Li, 2005 | | China, Thailand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040859

Onomastus nigrimaculatus Zhang & Li, 2005: 222, f. 1A-F (Dmf) Original description

Onomastus nigrimaculatus Benjamin, 2010: 731, f. 14A-F, 15A-C, 16A-E (mf)

Onomastus nigrimaculatus Peng, 2020: 266, f. 186a-e (mf)

Onomastus patellaris Simon, 1900 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035049

Onomastus patellaris Simon, 1900d: 29 (Dm) Original description

Onomastus patellaris Wanless, 1980c: 183, f. 3A-G (m, Df)

Onomastus patellaris Wanless, 1980d: 216, f. 3C

Onomastus patellaris Benjamin, 2010: 733, f. 17A-C (m)

Onomastus patellaris Jose, Benjamin & Sudhikumar, 2026: 516, f. 6A-H (mf)

Onomastus pethiyagodai Benjamin, 2010 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043344

Onomastus pethiyagodai Benjamin, 2010: 734, f. 18A-F, 19A-F, 20A-E, 21A-D, 22A-B (Dmf) Original description

Onomastus quinquenotatus Simon, 1900 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035050

Onomastus quinquenotatus Simon, 1900d: 29 (Df) Original description

Onomastus quinquenotatus Wanless, 1980c: 183, f. 2A-E (f)

Onomastus quinquenotatus Benjamin, 2010: 737, f. 23A-D, 24A-D, 25A-H (f, Dm)

Onomastus rattotensis Benjamin, 2010 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043345

Onomastus rattotensis Benjamin, 2010: 739, f. 26A-E, 27A-E, 28A-G (Dmf) Original description

Onomastus silentvalley Jose & Benjamin, 2026 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:067238

Onomastus silentvalley Jose & Benjamin, in Jose, Benjamin & Sudhikumar, 2026: 512, f. 3A-H, 4A-D, 7E (Dmf) Original description

Onomastus simoni Żabka, 1985 | | Vietnam urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035051

Onomastus simoni Żabka, 1985: 422, f. 381-384 (Df) Original description

Onomastus simoni Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013: 136, f. 104-105 (f)

Onomastus simoni Prószyński, 2017b: 125, f. 54P (f)

Onomastus subchenae C. Wang, W. H. Wang & Peng, 2021 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053210

Onomastus subchenae Wang, Wang & Peng, 2021: 32, f. 1A-D, 2A-C, 3A-G (Dmf) Original description

Onomastus wijesinghei Benjamin & Jose, 2026 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:067239

Onomastus wijesinghei Benjamin & Jose, in Jose, Benjamin & Sudhikumar, 2026: 515, f. 5A-I, 7A-C (Dmf) Original description

Onomastus zhuwu Lin & Li, 2024 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059743

Onomastus zhuwu Lin & Li, in Lin et al., 2024a: 54, f. 45A-B, 46A-B, 49C-D (Dmf) Original description