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. Sonoita G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03235

type Sonoita lightfooti G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903; gender feminine

Sonoita ledouxi Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 | | Ivory Coast, Uganda urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056042

Sonoita ledouxi Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 104, f. 61A-H, 62A-D (Dmf) Original description

Sonoita lightfooti G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 | | Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036309 TYPE SPECIES

Sonoita lightfootii Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 184, pl. 19, f. 4 (Dm) Original description

Sonoita lightfooti Wanless, 1985: 267, f. 11A-L, 13A-B, 14A-B, 16F (m, Df)

Sonoita lightfooti Wijesinghe, 1992: 12, f. 17 (m)

Sonoita lightfooti Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 212, f. 157-163 (mf)

Sonoita lightfooti Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008: 48, f. 189-194, 213-214 (m)

Sonoita aff. lightfooti Maddison et al., 2014: 59, f. 6 (f)

Sonoita lightfooti Prószyński, 2017b: 119, f. 52Q, 53O (mf)

Sonoita cf. lightfooti Caleb et al., 2025a: 79, f. 1A-C, 2A-H, 3A-B (m)

Sonoita lightfooti Parmar, Pandya & Chauhan, 2026: 28242, f. 1-6 (m)