Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Family |   ACCEPTED
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Lyssomanidae Blackwall, 1877 by Galiano, 1976b: 67; for illustrations of scale morphology of about 60 species, see Hill, 1979; for the phylogeny within the family see Maddison & Hedin, 2003b, Maddison, 2015Maddison et al., 2017, Prószyński, 2017b and Zhang et al., 2024f; the subfamilies Asemoneinae Maddison, 2015, Eupoinae Maddison, 2015, Hisponinae Simon 1901, Lyssomaninae, Onomastinae Maddison, 2015, Salticinae and Spartaeinae Wanless, 1984 are confirmed by Zhang et al., 2024f: 347.
Gen. Myrmatheca Prószyński, 2016 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04354
type Myrmarachne alticephalon Yamasaki & Ahmad, 2013; gender feminine
N.B.: For probably available older generic names see Edwards, 2013a and Marusik & Blick, 2019: 90 (Pergasus Thorell, 1894).
Myrmatheca alticephalon (Yamasaki & Ahmad, 2013) | | Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:046232 TYPE SPECIES
Myrmarachne alticephalon Yamasaki & Ahmad, 2013: 507, f. 4A-G, 5A-E (Dmf) Original description
Myrmatheca alticephalon Prószyński, 2016: 10, f. 1H, 3J, 4F (mf, T from Myrmarachne)
Myrmatheca alticephalon Prószyński, 2017b: 103, f. 45C4, 46F (f)
Myrmatheca ransoni (Wanless, 1978) | | Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034890
Myrmarachne ransoni Wanless, 1978a: 124, f. 83A-E (Df) Original description
Myrmatheca ransoni Prószyński, 2016: 13 (T from Myrmarachne)

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