World Spider Catalog

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, 2015, Maddison 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. Tubalaxia Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06171

type Tubalaxia aurea Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024; gender feminine

Tubalaxia aurea Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061703 TYPE SPECIES

Tubalaxia aurea Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024: 703, S14, f. 17a-g, 18a-g, 19a-d (Dmf) Original description

Tubalaxia castanea Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024 | | Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061704

Tubalaxia castanea Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024: 704, S15, f. 20a-g, 21a-d (Dmf) Original description

Tubalaxia minuta (Prószyński, 1992) | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033301

Euophrys minutus Prószyński, 1992b: 172, f. 30-32 (Df) Original description

Lechia minuta Prószyński, 2017b: 75, f. 32L (f, T from Euophrys, but Lechia not revalidated, therefore assigned to Laufeia, of which Lechia is a synonym)

Lechia minuta Prószyński, 2019: 117 (T from Laufeia, N.B.: only provisionally, belongs neither to Laufeia nor to Euophrys)

Tubalaxia minuta Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024: 702, S14 (T from Lechia)