World Spider Catalog

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. Prostheclina Keyserling, 1882 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03173

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Saitis Simon, 1876 by Davies & Żabka, 1989: 238.

Transferred to other genera:

Prostheclina cambridgei G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1888 -- see Anasaitis

Prostheclina signata Banks, 1901 -- see Anasaitis

Prostheclina amplior Richardson & Żabka, 2007 | | Australia (Queensland to Tasmania) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041248

Prostheclina amplior Richardson & Żabka, 2007: 87, f. 3B, 6A-F (Dmf) Original description

Prostheclina basilonesa Richardson & Żabka, 2007 | | Australia (Victoria, Tasmania) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041249

Prostheclina basilonesa Richardson & Żabka, 2007: 89, f. 3A, 8A-E (Dmf) Original description

Prostheclina boreoaitha Richardson & Żabka, 2007 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041250

Prostheclina boreoaitha Richardson & Żabka, 2007: 90, f. 3D, 9A-B (Dm) Original description

Prostheclina boreoaitha Richardson, 2022a: 264, f. 61-66 (Df)

Prostheclina boreoxantha Richardson & Żabka, 2007 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041251

Prostheclina boreoxantha Richardson & Żabka, 2007: 91, f. 3G, 11A-E (Dmf) Original description

Prostheclina bulburin Richardson & Żabka, 2007 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041252

Prostheclina pallida Davies & Żabka, 1989: 238, pl. 44 (Tmf from Saitis per Roewer; misidentified)

Prostheclina bulburin Richardson & Żabka, 2007: 92, f. 3F, 13A-E, not 12A-E as per species heading (Dmf) Original description

Prostheclina eungella Richardson & Żabka, 2007 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041253

Prostheclina eungella Richardson & Żabka, 2007: 94, f. 3C, 12A-E, not 13A-E as per species heading (Dmf) Original description

Prostheclina pallida Keyserling, 1882 | | Eastern Australia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035727

Prostheclina pallida Keyserling, 1882: 1368, pl. 116, f. 1-2 (Dmf) Original description

Prostheclina pallida Richardson & Żabka, 2007: 84, f. 3E, 4A-H (mf)

Prostheclina pallida Prószyński, 2017b: 77, f. 33T (mf)