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. Ligdus Thorell, 1895 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03029
type Ligdus chelifer Thorell, 1895; gender masculine
N.B.: close to Copocrossa Simon, 1901 and possibly a senior synonym (Maddison et al., 2020b: 39).
Ligdus chelifer Thorell, 1895 | | Myanmar, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034240 TYPE SPECIES
Ligdus chelifer Thorell, 1895b: 337 (Df) Original description
Ligdus chelifer Hill et al., 2025: 11, f. 5.1-3, 6.1-4, 7.1-6, 8.1-6, 9.1-4 (mf habitus)
Ligdus garvale Caleb, 2024 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060638
Ligdus garvale Caleb in Caleb et al., 2024: 447, f. 1-17 (Dm) Original description
Ligdus garvale Hill et al., 2025: 18, f. 10.1-8, 11.1-21, 12.1, 19.1 (mf habitus)

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