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:

Sittiab Prószyński, 2017 = Attinella Banks, 1905 (Maddison et al., 2020a: 28)

Gen. Attinella Banks, 1905 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04595

N.B.: considered a synonym of Sitticus Simon, 1901 by Richman, 1979: 125, revalidated and considered a synonym of Sittiab Prószyński, 2017 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04395] (type Sitticus absolutus Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) by Maddison et al., 2020: 28.

In synonymy:

Attinella absolutus (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936, T from Sittiab) = Attinella dorsata Banks, 1895 (Maddison et al., 2020a: 30)

Attinella callidus (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) = Attinella dorsata Banks, 1895 (Prószyński, 1973a: 79, sub Sitticus absolutus)

Attinella cursor (Barrows, 1919, T from Sittiab) = Attinella concolor Banks, 1895 (Maddison et al., 2020a: 89)

Attinella floridanus (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) = Attinella concolor Banks, 1895 (Prószyński, 1973a: 86, sub Sitticus cursor)

Attinella hansi (Schenkel, 1951) = Attinella dorsata Banks, 1895 (Prószyński, 1973a: 79, sub Sitticus absolutus)

Attinella concolor (Banks, 1895) | | USA, Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036217

Attus concolor Banks, 1895c: 206 (Df) Original description

Sitticus floridanus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 213 (Df)

Euophrys concolor Petrunkevitch, 1911: 646

Sitticus floridanus Kaston, 1948: 459, f. 1686-1688 (mf)

Sittacus cursor Barrows, 1919b: 359, pl. 15, f. 8 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049277]

Sitticus cursor Levi & Field, 1954: 464, f. 105-106 (mf)

Sitticus floridanus Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936a: 20, f. 21 (Dm)

Sitticus cursor Prószyński, 1973a: 86, f. 45-49 (mf, S of S. floridanus)

Sitticus cursor Prószyński, 1975: 216, f. 1n (f)

Sitticus cursor Prószyński, 1976: 156, f. 307 (f)

Sitticus concolor Maddison, 1996: 270 (m, removed f from S of Pelegrina proterva, contra Edwards, 1980: 12; S of S. cursor, rejected by Prószyński, 2017: 41; only this reference as 'nomen dubium' by Prószyński, 2017: 41)

Sittiab cursor Prószyński, 2017a: 41, f. 2F1, 2G1 (f, T from Sitticus, removed from S of Sitticus concolor)

Attinella concolor W. Maddison in Maddison et al., 2020a: 28, f. 89-93 (mf, T from Sitticus, S of Sittiab cursor)

Attinella dorsata (Banks, 1895) | | USA, Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036223

Attus dorsatus Banks, 1895e: 97 (Df) Original description

Attinella dorsata Banks, 1905a: 322

Sitticus absolutus Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936a: 19, f. 19-20 (Dmf)

Sitticus callidus Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936a: 20, f. 17-18 (Dmf)

Sitticus hansii Schenkel, 1951: 44, f. 44 (Dm)

Sitticus absolutus Prószyński, 1973a: 79, f. 17-19, 22-44 (mf, S of S. callidus and S. hansii)

Sitticus dorsatus Richman, 1979: 125 (S of S. absolutus, rejected by Prószyński, 2017: 41, only this reference as 'nomen dubium' by Prószyński, 2017: 41)

Sitticus dorsatus Breene et al., 1993: 67, f. 47A-B (mf; misidentified after Prószyński, 2017: 41)

Sittiab absolutus Prószyński, 2017a: 41, f. 2E, 2F2-6, 2G2-6, 2H1-2 (mf, T from Sitticus, removed from S of Sitticus dorsatus)

Sittiab absolutus Prószyński, 2017b: 65, f. 29I (mf)

Attinella dorsata W. Maddison in Maddison et al., 2020a: 30, f. 11-14, 94-98, 105 (mf, T from Sittiab, S of Sittiab absolutus)

Attinella dorsata Del-Pozo et al., 2023: 59, f. 1a-d (m)

Attinella juniperi (Gertsch & Riechert, 1976) | | USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036239

Sitticus juniperi Gertsch & Riechert, 1976: 21, f. 37-41 (Dmf) Original description

Sittiab juniperi Prószyński, 2017a: 41 (T from Sitticus)

Attinella juniperi W. Maddison in Maddison et al., 2020a: 27 (T from Sittiab)