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. Modunda Simon, 1901 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03450

type Modunda phragmitis Simon, 1901; gender feminine; syn. of Modunda staintoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Bianor G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885 by Logunov, 2001a: 276, contra Prószyński, 1990: 223.

Transferred to other genera:

Modunda ghigii Caporiacco, 1949 -- see Ureta

In synonymy:

Modunda congener (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872, T from Hyctia=Marpissa) = Modunda staintoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (Prószyński, 1990: 223, sub Bianor)

Modunda phragmitis Simon, 1901 = Modunda staintoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (Prószyński, 1990: 223, sub Bianor)

Modunda aeneiceps Simon, 1901 | | Sri Lanka, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032516

Modunda aeneiceps Simon, 1901c: 161 (Df) Original description

Bianor aeneiceps Prószyński, 1987: 9 (Tf from Modunda)

Bianor aeneiceps Peng, 1992b: 10, f. 1-2 (f)

Bianor aeneiceps Peng et al., 1993: 24, f. 22-25 (f)

Bianor aeneiceps Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 506, f. 289E (f)

Bianor aeneiceps Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 423, f. 280A-C (f)

Modunda aeneiceps Logunov, 2001a: 276, f. 338-346 (Tf from Bianor)

Modunda aeneiceps Yin et al., 2012: 1403, f. 762a-d (f)

Modunda aeneiceps Peng, 2020: 229, f. 157a-d (f)

Modunda orientalis Dönitz & Strand, 1906 | | Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032538

Modunda orientalis Dönitz & Strand in Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 396, pl. 8, f. 123 (Df) Original description

Modunda orientalis Logunov, 2001a: 276 (T from Bianor, species inquirenda)

Modunda staintoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) | | South Africa to India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032546 TYPE SPECIES

Salticus staintonii O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 331, pl. 14, f. 20 (Dm) Original description

Salticus congener O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 332 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058199]

Modunda phragmitis Simon, 1901c: 160 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058200]

Hyctia congenera Reimoser, 1919: 107

Hyctia staintoni Reimoser, 1919: 107

Modunda phragmitis Prószyński, 1987: 63-64 (mf)

Bianor staintoni Prószyński, 1990: 72 (T from Hyctia = Marpissa, S of Hyctia congenera and Modunda phragmitis)

Modunda staintoni Logunov, 2001a: 277, f. 347-366 (mf, T from Bianor)

Modunda staintoni Prószyński, 2002: 226, f. 16-17 (f)

Modunda phragmitis Prószyński, 2002: 226, f. 18-20 (m)

Modunda staintoni Prószyński, 2003: 98, f. 112, 115-116, 119, 122-132 (mf)

Modunda staintoni Wesołowska & van Harten, 2007: 229, f. 118-123 (mf)

Modunda staintoni Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008: 26, f. 102-106 (m)

Modunda staintoni Prószyński, 2017b: 51, f. 21P, 22N,S (mf)

Modunda staintoni Parmar & Prajapati, 2023: 23276, image 1, 4-5 (m)