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.

In synonymy:

Stenodina Simon, 1900 = Copocrossa Simon, 1901 (Simon, 1901a: 475, preoccupied, replacement name)

Gen. Copocrossa Simon, 1901 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02902

type Stenodina tenuilineata Simon, 1900; gender feminine

N.B.: replacement name for Stenodina Simon, 1900b: 388 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06346], preoccupied in Coleoptera by Fairmaire, 1898; probably a synonym of Ligdus Thorell, 1895 (Maddison et al., 2020b: 39).

Transferred to other genera:

Copocrossa albozonata Caporiacco, 1949 -- see Afromarengo

Copocrossa bimaculata G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 -- see Planamarengo

Copocrossa tenerrima (L. Koch, 1879) -- see Paraplatoides

In synonymy:

Copocrossa harpina Simon, 1903 = Copocrossa politiventris Simon, 1901 (Hill et al., 2025: 6)

Copocrossa politiventris Simon, 1901 | | Malaysia (peninsula), Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032852

Copocrossa politiventris Simon, 1901a: 474, f. 550-551 (m)

Copocrossa politiventris Simon, 1901k: 71 (Dm) Original description

Copocrossa harpina Simon, 1903h: 306 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032851]

Copocrossa politiventris Hill et al., 2025: 6, f. 2.1-6, 3.1-6 (mf habitus, S of Copocrossa harpina)

Copocrossa tenuilineata (Simon, 1900) | | Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032853 TYPE SPECIES

Stenodina tenuilineata Simon, 1900b: 388 (Dj) Original description

Copocrossa tenuilineata Simon, 1901a: 475, f. 548-549, 552 (Df)

Copocrossa tenuilineata Davies & Żabka, 1989: 200, pl. 12 (f)

Copocrossa tenuilineata Prószyński, 2017b: 90, f. 40F, 41C (f)

Copocrossa tenulineata Hill et al., 2025: 10, f. 4.1-5 (mf habitus, lapsus)