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.

Gen. Myrmaplata Prószyński, 2016 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04353

N.B.: For probably available older generic names see Edwards, 2013a and Marusik & Blick, 2019: 90 (Ascalus Thorell, 1894).

In synonymy:

Myrmaplata daitarensis (Prószyński, 1992) = Myrmaplata plataleoides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 (Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003: 298, sub Myrmarachne)

Myrmaplata megachelae (Ganesh Kumar & Mohanasundaram, 1998, T from Myrmarachne) = Myrmaplata plataleoides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 (Caleb, 2020b: 15737)

Myrmaplata aureonigra (Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003) | | Malaysia, Singapore urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038342

Myrmarachne maxillosa Badcock, 1918: 287, f. 4 (f; misidentified per Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003: 321)

Myrmarachne aureonigra Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003: 321, f. 117-121 (Dmf) Original description

Myrmaplata aureonigra Prószyński, 2018b: 163, f. 22H (f, T from Myrmarachne)

Myrmaplata hispidacoxa (Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003) | | Malaysia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039107

Myrmarachne hispidacoxa Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003: 311, f. 64-68 (Df) Original description

Myrmaplata hispidacoxa Prószyński, 2016: 10 (T from Myrmarachne)

Myrmaplata hispidacoxa Prószyński, 2018b: 165, f. 22I (f)

Myrmaplata plataleoides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) | | India, Sri Lanka, China, Southeast Asia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034881

Salticus plataleoides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869c: 68, pl. 6, f. 61-65 (Dm) Original description

Salticus plataleoides Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 33, pl. 3, f. 1 (m)

Myrmarachne plataleoides Simon, 1901a: 499, f. 586, 590-592 (m)

Myrmarachne plataleoides Szombathy, 1913: 23, f. 1-6 (m, Df)

Myrmarachne plataleoides Bhattacharya, 1937: 426, f. 3 (m)

Myrmarachne daitarensis Prószyński, 1992b: 185, f. 80-81, 83-89 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034761]

Myrmarachne plataleoides Peng et al., 1993: 140, f. 479-488 (mf)

Myrmarachne megachelae Ganesh Kumar & Mohanasundaram, 1998: 27, 5 unnumbered f. (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040849]

Myrmarachne plataleoides Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 536, f. 305G, S (mf)

Myrmarachne plataleoides Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003: 298, f. 1-7 (m, S of Myrmarachne daitarensis)

Myrmarachne plataleoides Edwards & Benjamin, 2009: 16, f. 7 (mf)

Myrmarachne plataleoides Yamasaki, 2015: 55, f. 17-18 (mf)

Myrmarachne plataleoides Sen et al., 2015: 42, f. 147-151, pl. 14 (f)

Myrmarachne plataleoides Hill & Otto, 2015: 3, f. 2.1 (m habitus)

Myrmarachne plataleoides Benjamin, 2015b: 2646, f. 29A-D, 30A-D, 31A-E (mf)

Myrmarachne plataleoides Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2016: 25, f. 21A-G, 26A, 28A-C (m)

Myrmaplata plataleoides Prószyński, 2016: 10, f. 1E-F, 2G, 3H (mf, T from Myrmarachne)

Myrmarachne plataleoides Caleb, 2016c: 411, f. 31-54 (mf)

Myrmaplata plataleoides Prószyński, 2018b: 165, f. 22F (f)

Myrmarachne plataleoides Peng, 2020: 250, f. 174a-j (mf)

Myrmaplata plataleoides Caleb, 2020b: 15737 (S of Myrmarachne megachelae)

Myrmaplata turriformis (Badcock, 1918) | | Laos, Malaysia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034914

Myrmarachne turriformis Badcock, 1918: 296, f. 6 (Dmf) Original description

Myrmarachne turriformis Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003: 306, f. 40-47 (mf)

Myrmarachne turriformis Edwards & Benjamin, 2009: 16, f. 7 (mf)

Myrmaplata turriformis Prószyński, 2016: 10 (T from Myrmarachne)

Myrmaplata wanlessi (Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003) | | Malaysia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039109

Myrmarachne wanlessi Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003: 315, f. 80-100 (Dm) Original description

Myrmaplata wanlessi Prószyński, 2016: 10 (T from Myrmarachne)