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. Pystira Simon, 1901 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03190

N.B.: considered a junior synonym of Omoedus Thorell, 1881 by Zhang & Maddison, 2012b: 21, rejected by Prószyński, 2017b: 76.

Pystira cyanothorax (Thorell, 1881) | | New Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035866

Attus cyanothorax Thorell, 1881: 509 (Df) Original description

Pystira cyanothorax Simon, 1901a: 653

Pystira cyanothorax Prószyński, 2017b: 76 (T from Omoedus)

Pystira ephippigera (Simon, 1885) | | Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035867

Hadrosoma ephippigerum Simon, 1885a: 36 (Df) Original description

Bootes ephippiger Thorell, 1892a: 375

Pystira ephippigera Simon, 1901a: 656, f. 772

Pystira ephippigera Prószyński, 1984a: 117 (f, Dm)

Omoedus ephippigerus Zhang & Maddison, 2012b: 21

Omoedus ephippigerus Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 66, f. 343-349, 801-802 (mf)

Pystira ephippigera Prószyński, 2017b: 76, f. 1B.B, 38H, 39O (mf, T from Omoedus)

Pystira karschi (Thorell, 1881) | | New Guinea, Indonesia (Aru Is.) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035868

Plexippus karschii Thorell, 1881: 637 (Dmf) Original description

Pystira karschi Simon, 1901a: 653

Pystira karschi Prószyński, 2017b: 76 (T from Omoedus)

Pystira nigripalpis (Thorell, 1877) | | Indonesia (Sulawesi) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035869

Attus nigripalpis Thorell, 1877b: 620 (Dmf) Original description

Bootes nigripalpis Thorell, 1892a: 379

Pystira nigripalpis Simon, 1901a: 653

Pystira nigripalpis Prószyński, 2017b: 76 (T from Omoedus)

Pystira versicolor Dyal, 1935 | | Pakistan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035870

Pystira versicolor Dyal, 1935: 226 (Df) Original description

Pystira versicolor Prószyński, 2017b: 76 (T from Omoedus)