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. Paradamoetas G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03123

type Paradamoetas formicinus G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885; gender masculine

Paradamoetas carus (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892) | | Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035166

Keyserlingella cara Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 71, pl. 5, f. 8 (Dm) Original description

Paradamoetas formicina Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 74, pl. 6, f. 2d (m; misidentified per Cutler, 1981b: 211)

Keyserlingella cara F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 177, pl. 12, f. 9 (m)

Paradamoetas formicina F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 177, pl. 12, f. 5 (m; misidentified per Cutler, 1981b: 211)

Paradamoetas formicina Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 375, pl. 49, f. 2d (m; misidentified per Cutler, 1981b: 211)

Paradamoetas cara Cutler, 1981b: 211, f. 2, 9, 13-14, 17-20, 25 (mf, removed from S of Paradamoetas formicinus [rejecting Galiano, 1971a: 575])

Paradamoetas cara Cutler, 1982a: 219, f. 2b (m)

Paradamoetas changuinola Cutler, 1982 | | Panama urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035167

Paradamoetas changuinola Cutler, 1982a: 219, f. 1, 2a, 3a, 4a-c (Dmf; specific epithet is a noun) Original description

Paradamoetas fontanus (Levi, 1951) | | Canada, USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035168

Icius fontanus Levi, 1951: 33, f. 43-45 (Dm) Original description

Icius fontanus Levi & Field, 1954: 462, f. 93-95 (m)

Eris frontosus Prószyński, 1976: 150, f. 77 (m, T from Icius, lapsus)

Paradamoetas fontanus Richman & Cutler, 1978: 91 (T from Eris)

Paradamoetas fontana Cutler, 1981b: 212, f. 3, 10, 15-16, 23-24, 26 (m, Df)

Paradamoetas fontana Maddison, 1996: 332, f. 58 (m)

Paradamoetas fontanus Prószyński, 2017b: 94, f. 42N (m)

Paradamoetas formicinus G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885 | | USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035169 TYPE SPECIES

Paradamoetas formicina Peckham & Peckham, 1885b: 79, pl. 2, f. 10 (Dm) Original description

Paradamoetas formicina Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 74, pl. 6, f. 2-2c (Df; m f. 2d see Paradamoetas carus)

Paradamoetas formicina F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 177, pl. 12, f. 6-6c (f; m f. 5 see Paradamoetas carus)

Paradamoetas formicina Simon, 1901a: 632, f. 743 (f)

Paradamoetas formicina Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 375, pl. 51, f. 4 (f habitus; m pl. 49, f. 2b see Paradamoetas carus)

Paradamoetas formicina Galiano, 1971a: 575 (S of Keyserlingella cara [revalidated by Cutler, 1981b: 211, sub Paradamoetas])

Paradamoetas formicina Cutler, 1981b: 210, f. 1, 6-8, 11-12, 21-22 (mf)

Paradamoetas formicina Cutler, 1982a: 219, f. 3b (f)