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. Colopsus Simon, 1902 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04719

N.B.: considered a synonym of Evarcha Simon, 1902 by Prószyński, 1984a: 51, revalidated by Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021: 2771; considered a senior synponym of Cheliceroides Żabka, 1985 by Logunov, 2021e: 1022 and revalidated by Lin, Yang & Zhang, 2024: 248; Colopsus does not include the type species of Evacin Prószyński, 2018b (type Evarcha kochi Simon, 1902) and thus Evacin is not a synonym of Colopsus (contra Blick & Marusik, 2018: 237).

Transferred to other genera:

Colopsus longipalpis (Żabka, 1985) -- see Cheliceroides

In synonymy:

Colopsus cinereus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 = Colopsus manu Caleb, Christudhas, Laltanpuii & Chitra, 2014 (Caleb et al., 2022c: 475)

Colopsus arkavathi Caleb, 2022 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056963

Colopsus arkavathi Caleb in Caleb et al., 2022c: 471, f. 1-16, 22-28 (Dmf) Original description

Colopsus cancellatus Simon, 1902 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033386

Colopsus cancellatus Simon, 1902a: 409 (Dmf) Original description

Colopsus cancellatus Simon, 1903a: 738, f. 851 (m)

Evarcha cancellata Prószyński, 1984a: 51 (mf)

Evarcha cf. cancellata Prószyński, 2009b: 160, f. 34 (f; presumably misidentified per Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021: 2779)

Evacin cancellata Prószyński, 2018b: 142, f. 3J, 6G (mf)

Colopsus cancellatus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021: 2776, f. 3a-h, 4a-f, 5a-e, 6a-b, 7a, d (mf, T from Evarcha)

Colopsus cancellatus Lin, Yang & Zhang, 2024: 250, f. 19-21 (mf)

Colopsus ferruginus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053066

Colopsus ferruginus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021: 2782, f. 5f-j, 6c-d, 7b, e, 10a-l, 11a-f (Dmf) Original description

Colopsus magnus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053067

Colopsus magnus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021: 2786, f. 12a-d, 13a-e, 14a-e, 15a-d (Dmf) Original description

Colopsus manu (Caleb, Christudhas, Laltanpuii & Chitra, 2014) | | India, Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047093

Hyllus manu Caleb et al., 2014: 635, f. 1-10 (Dmf) Original description

Hyllus manu Caleb, 2020b: 15734, f. 16F-H, 28F-G (mf)

Colopsus cinereus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021: 2779, f. 8a-e, 9a-b (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053065]

Colopsus cinereus Logunov, 2021d: 355, f. 15-26 (m, Df)

Colopsus manu Caleb et al., 2022c: 475, f. 17-21 (mf, T from Hyllus, S of Colopsus cinereus)

Colopsus peppara Sudhin, Sen & Caleb, 2023 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059269

Colopsus peppara Sudhin, Sen & Caleb, 2023c: 286, f. 1A-F, 2A-D (Dmf) Original description

Colopsus tenuesi Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053068

Colopsus tenuesi Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021: 2792, f. 7c, f, 16a-f (Dm) Original description