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. Wallaba Mello-Leitão, 1940 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03299

N.B.: considered a synonym of Sidusa Peckham & Peckham, 1895 by Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 19, but revalidated by Prószyński, 2017b: 77.

Transferred to other genera:

Wallaba albopalpis (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) -- see Sidusa

Wallaba decora Bryant, 1943 -- see Corythalia

Wallaba metallica (Mello-Leitão, 1940) | | Guyana urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036785

Wallaba metallica Mello-Leitão, 1940c: 191, f. 31 (Dm) Original description

Sidusa metallica Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 19 (T from Wallaba)

Wallaba metallica Prószyński, 2017b: 76, f. 38O (m, T from Sidusa)