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. Emertonius G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04454

N.B.: removed from synonymy of Myrmarachne MacLeay, 1839 by Prószyński, 2018b: 165 (rejecting Wanless, 1978b: 235); the revalidation by Prószyński, 2016 was not accepted, because the rejection of Edwards, 2013a was not taken into account; for an alternate view see Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010: 162 and Edwards, 2013a: 4.

Emertonius exasperans (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892) | | Indonesia (Java, Bali) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034778

Emertonius exasperans Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 54, pl. 4, f. 8 (Dm) Original description

Emertonius exasperans Simon, 1901a: 504, f. 595

Myrmarachne exasperans Wanless, 1978b: 235, f. 2A-E (f; f. 1A-F m: misidentified per Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010: 164 and Prószyński, 2018b: 170)

Emertonius exasperans Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010: 164-167, 169-171 (f)

Myrmarachne exasperans Hill & Otto, 2015: 1, f. 1.1-4 (mf habitus)

Emertonius exasperans Prószyński, 2016: 4

Emertonius exasperans Prószyński, 2017b: 100, f. 45A1-4, 45C1-2, 46A (f, T from Myrmarachne, but Emertonius not revalidated)

Emertonius exasperans Prószyński, 2018b: 166, f. 19A,C, 21A-D (mf, T from Myrmarachne)

Myrmarachne exasperans Hurni-Cranston & Hill, 2019: 1, f. 2-11 (m, f habitus)

Emertonius koomeni Prószyński, 2018 | | Malaysia (Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050268

Emertonius koomeni Prószyński, 2018b: 167, f. 19E-F, 25A-H (Df) Original description

Emertonius malayanus (Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003) | | Malaysia (peninsula, Borneo), Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039108

Myrmarachne malayana Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003: 317, f. 101-109 (Dmf) Original description

Myrmarachne malayana Yamasaki & Ahmad, 2013: 531, f. 24A-G, 25A-E (mf)

Emertonius malayanus Prószyński, 2018b: 165, f. 21K-P, 22G, 26B-S (mf, T from Myrmarachne)

Emertonius palawensis Prószyński, 2018 | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050269

Myrmarachne exasperans Wanless, 1978b: 235, f. 1A-F (m; misidentified per Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010: 164 and Prószyński, 2018b: 170)

"Emertonius" palawensis Prószyński, 2018b: 170, f. 21Q-R1 (Dm) Original description

Emertonius shelfordi (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1907) | | Malaysia (Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034900

Myrmarachne shelfordii Peckham & Peckham, 1907: 603 (Dm) Original description

Myrmarachne shelfordii Yamasaki, 2010: 64, f. 8-12 (m)

Myrmarachne shelfordii Yamasaki & Ahmad, 2013: 549, f. 39A-G, 40A-E (m, Df)

Emertonius shelfordi Prószyński, 2017b: 99, f. 45C3, 46G (f)

Emertonius shelfordi Prószyński, 2018b: 171, f. 19D, 21G-J1, 26A (mf, T from Myrmarachne)