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. Nilakantha G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04287

N.B.: removed from synonymy of Thiodina Simon, 1900 by Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015: 188, contra Bryant, 1950: 202.

Nilakantha cockerelli G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901 | | Hispaniola, Jamaica urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036552

Nilacantha cockwelli Simon, 1901a: 459 (lapsus)

Nilakantha cockerelli Peckham & Peckham, 1901b: 8, pl. 2, f. 1 (Dmf) Original description

Thiodina cockerelli Bryant, 1950a: 203, f. 18 (f)

Nilakantha cockerelli Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015: 188 (T from Thiodina)

Nilakantha crucifera (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) | | Panama urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036553

Colonus crucifer F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 247, pl. 21, f. 13 (Df) Original description

Thiodina crucifera Simon, 1903a: 1050

Nilakantha crucifera Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015: 188 (T from Thiodina; may be S of N. cockerelli)

Nilakantha inerma (Bryant, 1940) | | Cuba urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036555

Thiodina inerma Bryant, 1940: 451, pl. 17, f. 231, pl. 18, f. 239 (Dmf) Original description

Nilakantha inerma Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015: 188 (T from Thiodina)

Nilakantha peckhami Bryant, 1940 | | Cuba urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036559

Nilakantha peckhami Bryant, 1940: 454, f. 238 (Dm) Original description

Nilakantha peckhami Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015: 188 (T from Thiodina)