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.

In synonymy:

Donatinus Chickering, 1946 = Simprulla Simon, 1901 (Galiano, 1964c: 419)

Gen. Simprulla Simon, 1901 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03231

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Donatinus Chickering, 1946: 439 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05488] (type D. niger Chickering, 1946 = Simprulla nigricolor Simon, 1901) by Galiano, 1964c: 419.

Transferred to other genera:

Simprulla secunda Soares & Camargo, 1948 -- see Proctonemesia

In synonymy:

Simprulla nigra (Chickering, 1946) = Simprulla nigricolor Simon, 1901 (Galiano, 1964c: 420)

Simprulla argentina Mello-Leitão, 1940 | | Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036203

Simprulla argentina Mello-Leitão, 1940e: 256 (Df) Original description

Simprulla argentina Galiano, 1964c: 422, f. 8-11 (f)

Simprulla argentina Jackowska & Prószyński, 1975: 42, f. 4c (f)

Simprulla argentina Galiano, 1986: 129, f. 1-4 (Dm)

Simprulla nigricolor Simon, 1901 | | Panama to Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036204

Simprulla nigricolor Simon, 1901a: 523, f. 623-624

Simprulla nigricolor Simon, 1901g: 74 (Dm) Original description

Donatinus niger Chickering, 1946: 440, f. 404-406 (Df)

Simprulla nigricolor Galiano, 1963a: 450, pl. XXXVII, f. 8-9 (m)

Simprulla nigricolor Galiano, 1964c: 420, f. 1-7 (Sf)

Simprulla nigricolor Jackowska & Prószyński, 1975: 42, f. 4d (f)

Simprulla nigricolor Prószyński, 2017b: 61, f. 27W (mf)

Simprulla nigricolor Martínez & Galvis, 2017b: 2, f. 1-6 (mf)