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. Parnaenus G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03137

N.B.: usually considered a synonym of Dendryphantes C. L. Koch, 1837, revalidated as subgenus of that genus by Kraus, 1955b: 76, as separate genus by Prószyński, 1971e: 446 and Brignoli, 1983c: 648.

Transferred to other genera:

Parnaenus convexus Chickering, 1946 -- see Bryantella

Parnaenus crassidens (Kraus, 1955) -- see Metaphidippus

Parnaenus fimbriatus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 -- see Metaphidippus

In synonymy:

Parnaenus poecilopus (Caporiacco, 1947, T from Sassacus) = Parnaenus cyanidens C. L. Koch, 1846 (Scioscia, 1997: 40)

Parnaenus recurvus Chickering, 1946 = Parnaenus cyanidens C. L. Koch, 1846 (Scioscia, 1997: 40)

Parnaenus cuspidatus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 | | Guatemala, El Salvador urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035202

Parnaenus cuspidatus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 288, pl. 27, f. 14 (Dm) Original description

Dendryphantes cuspidatus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 628

Dendryphantes cuspidatus Kraus, 1955b: 76, f. 219, text-f. 4 (m, T from Lurio)

Lurio cuspidatus Roewer, 1955c: 1223

Parnaenus cuspidatus Prószyński, 1971e: 446 (T from Dendryphantes)

Parnaenus cuspidatus Scioscia, 1997: 38, f. 1-5 (m)

Parnaenus cyanidens (C. L. Koch, 1846) | | Guatemala to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035203

Phidippus cyanidens C. L. Koch, 1846: 156, f. 1211 (Dm) Original description

Parnaenus cyanidens Peckham & Peckham, 1896: 38, pl. 3, f. 2, 9 (m, Df)

Parnaenus cyanidens F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 288, pl. 27, f. 12-13 (mf)

Dendryphantes cyanidens Simon, 1901a: 618, f. 746 (m)

Parnaeus cyanidens Crane, 1945: 38, f. 4H-M (mf)

Parnaenus recurvus Chickering, 1946: 340, f. 298-303 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058141]

Sassacus poecilopus Caporiacco, 1947a: 33 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058140]

Sassacus poecilopus Caporiacco, 1948a: 727, f. 159 (f)

Dendryphantes recurvus Roewer, 1955c: 1199

Dendryphantes cyanidens Roewer, 1955c: 1193

Parnaenus cyanidens Prószyński, 1971e: 446 (T from Dendryphantes)

Parnaenus recurvus Prószyński, 1971e: 446 (T from Dendryphantes)

Parnaenus recurvus Maddison, 1996: 332, f. 55 (m)

Parnaenus cyanidens Scioscia, 1997: 39, f. 6-19 (mf, S of Parnaenus recurvus and Sassacus poecilopus)

Parnaenus metallicus (C. L. Koch, 1846) | | Brazil, Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035204

Phidippus metallicus C. L. Koch, 1846: 151, f. 1207 (Dm) Original description

Dendryphantes metallicus Simon, 1901a: 625

Phidippus metallicus Prószyński, 1971e: 455 (T from Dendryphantes)

Parnaenus metallicus Scioscia, 1997: 44, f. 20-30 (m, Df, T from Phidippus)

Parnaenus metallicus Prószyński, 2017b: 94, f. 42P (mf)