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, 2015Maddison 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. Wallaba Mello-Leitão, 1940 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03299
type Wallaba metallica Mello-Leitão, 1940; gender feminine
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 TYPE SPECIES
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)

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