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. Megafreya Edwards, 2015 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04295

In synonymy:

Megafreya albicrinita (Badcock, 1932, T from Plexippus) = Megafreya sutrix Holmberg, 1875 (Galiano, 1962d: 181, sub Euophrys)

Megafreya luteostriata (Keyserling, 1878, T from Plexippus) = Megafreya sutrix Holmberg, 1875 (Galiano, 1962d: 181, sub Euophrys)

Megafreya mccooki (Thorell, 1892, T from Hasarius) = Megafreya sutrix Holmberg, 1875 (Edwards, 2015: 45)

Megafreya sutrix (Holmberg, 1875) | | Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033345

Euophrys sutrix Holmberg, 1875: 296, pl. 6, f. 5 (Df) Original description

Philaeus luteostriatus Keyserling, 1878a: 617, pl. 14, f. 31-32 (Dmf)

Hasarius mccookii Thorell, 1892a: 477 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033719]

Plexippus luteostriatus Simon, 1897e: 1

Plexippus albicrinitus Badcock, 1932: 43, f. 35 (Dm)

Hasarius mccookii Roewer, 1955c: 1524 (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium)

Euophrys sutrix Galiano, 1962d: 181 (S of Plexippus albicrinitus and P. luteostriatus)

Euophrys sutrix Galiano, 1963c: 23, pl. I-II (m)

Hasarius mccooki Prószyński, 1984a: 59 (mf, removed from nomen dubium)

Megafreya sutrix Edwards, 2015: 45, f. 18A-F (mf, T from Euophrys, S of Hasarius mccooki)