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.

In synonymy:

Phoebe C. L. Koch, 1850 = Sittisax Prószyński, 2017 (Prószyński, 2017a: 48, preoccupied)

Gen. Sittisax Prószyński, 2017 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04398
type Euophrys saxicola C. L. Koch, 1846; gender masculine
N.B.: the synonymy with Sitticus by Breitling, 2019b: 31 was not accepted because based mainly on COI (see FAQ 7) and rejected by Maddison et al., 2020: 34; considered a synonym of Phoebe C. L. Koch, 1850: 63 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06213] (described as a subgenus of Euophrys C. L. Koch, 1834; type Euophrys saxicola C. L. Koch, 1846), preoccupied in Coleoptera by Audinet-Serville, 1835, by Prószyński, 2017a: 48 (by transfer of the type species).

Transferred to other genera:

Sittisax dzieduszyckii (L. Koch, 1870) -- see Attulus

Sittisax rapax (Thorell, 1873) -- see Attulus

In synonymy:

Sittisax cingulatus (Simon, 1868) = Sittisax saxicola (C. L. Koch, 1846) (Prószyński, 1971b: 188, sub Sitticus)

Sittisax daisetsuzanus (Saito, 1934, T from Icius) = Sittisax ranieri (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1909) (Suguro & Nagano, 2015: 91, sub Sitticus)

Sittisax haydeni (Levi & Levi, 1951) = Sittisax ranieri (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1909) (Prószyński, 1971b: 193, sub Sitticus lineolatus)

Sittisax lineolatus (Grube, 1861) = Sittisax ranieri (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1909) (Platnick, 1993c: 812, sub Sitticus)

Sittisax mazamae (Schenkel, 1951) = Sittisax ranieri (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1909) (Prószyński, 1971b: 193, sub Sitticus lineolatus)

Sittisax montigena (Thorell, 1875) = Sittisax saxicola (C. L. Koch, 1846) (Prószyński, 1971b: 188, sub Sitticus)

Sittisax ranieri (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1909) | | North America, Northern Europe, Russia (Europe to Far North-East), Mongolia, Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036263
Attus lineolatus Grube, 1861: 175 (Dm; preoccupied by Sundevall, 1833, see Salticus cingulatus) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063321]
Sittacus ranieri Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 520, pl. 43, f. 5 (Dmf) Original description
Sitticus ranieri Petrunkevitch, 1911: 709
Icius daisetsuzanus Saito, 1934b: 297, pl. 12, f. 13, pl. 14, f. 51 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034090]
Sitticus saxicola Palmgren, 1943: 23, f. 22 (mf; misidentified per Kronestedt & Logunov, 2001: 465)
Sitticus saxicola Tullgren, 1944: 31, f. 19A, pl. 2, f. 37-38 (m; misidentified per Kronestedt & Logunov, 2001: 465)
Sitticus ranieri Levi & Levi, 1951: 232, f. 43 (m)
Sitticus haydeni Levi & Levi, 1951: 232, f. 36, 45-46 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063233]
Sitticus mazamae Schenkel, 1951: 45, f. 45 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063234]
Sitticus saxicola Tullgren, 1952: 151, f. 1 (f; misidentified per Kronestedt & Logunov, 2001: 465)
Attus lineolatus Roewer, 1955c: 1426 (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium)
Icius daisetsuzanus Saito, 1959: 156, f. 212a-c (f)
Sitticus lineolatus Prószyński, 1971b: 192, f. 14-30 (mf, removed from nomen dubium, S of Sitticus haydeni, S. mazamae and S. ranieri [revalidated by Platnick, 1993c: 812])
Sitticus lineolatus Prószyński, 1971c: 223, f. 37-39 (m)
Sitticus lineolatus Chikuni, 1989b: 150, f. 19 (mf)
Sitticus ranieri Platnick, 1993c: 812 (S of Sitticus lineolatus, S. ranieri is the oldest available name)
Sitticus ranieri Kronestedt & Logunov, 2001: 465, f. 1-2, 4-5, 8-10, 14, 16-20, 24 (mf)
Sitticus ranieri Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 202, f. 2257-2259 (mf)
Sitticus ranieri Almquist, 2007: 565, f. 472a-d (mf)
Sitticus ranieri Ono, Ikeda & Kono, 2009: 566, f. 57-59 (mf)
Sitticus ranieri Suguro & Nagano, 2015: 91, f. 14 (f, S of Icius daisetsuzanus)
Sittisax ranieri Prószyński, 2017a: 48, f. 2A1-4, 2B1-4 (f, T from Sitticus)
Sittisax saxicola (C. L. Koch, 1846) | | Europe, Russia (Sakhalin) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036269 TYPE SPECIES
Euophrys saxicola C. L. Koch, 1846: 17, f. 1284-1285 (Dmf) Original description
Phoebe saxicola Simon, 1864: 312
Attus saxicola Simon, 1868b: 42
Attus cingulatus Simon, 1868b: 50 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063232]
Attus montigenus Thorell, 1875a: 108 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063235]
Attus montigenus Thorell, 1875c: 184 (m)
Attus saxicola Bösenberg, 1903: 430, pl. 41, f. 631 (mf)
Attus montigenus Bösenberg, 1903: 434, pl. 42, f. 638 (m)
Sitticus montigenus Reimoser, 1919: 104
Sitticus montigenus Dahl & Dahl, 1926: 33, f. 99-100 (m)
Sitticus cingulatus Simon, 1937: 1189, 1256, f. 1876-1877 (m)
Sitticus saxicola Tullgren, 1944: 31, f. 19A, pl. 2, f. 36 (f; m see Sittisax ranieri)
Sitticus cingulatus Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu, 1970: 416, f. 3-4 (m)
Sitticus saxicola Tystshenko, 1971: 81, f. 125 (f)
Sitticus cingulatus Miller, 1971: 136, pl. XIX, f. 26, pl. XX, f. 1 (mf)
Sitticus saxicola Prószyński, 1971b: 188, f. 1, 3-13 (mf, removed from S of Sitticus littoralis = floricola [rejecting Roewer, 1955c: 1245], S of Sitticus cingulatus and S. montigena)
Sitticus saxicola Harm, 1973: 394, f. 6, 52, 57-58, 64 (mf)
Sitticus saxicola Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 518, f. 1389 (mf)
Sitticus saxicola Logunov & Wesołowska, 1995: 173, f. 9-16 (mf)
Sitticus saxicola Fuhn & Gherasim, 1995: 248, f. 114A-F (mf)
Sitticus saxicola Żabka, 1997: 95, f. 364-369 (mf)
Sitticus saxicola Kronestedt & Logunov, 2001: 474, f. 3, 6-7, 11-13, 15, 21-23 (mf)
Sittisax saxicola Prószyński, 2017a: 48, f. 2A, 3I (mf, T from Sitticus)
Sittisax saxicola Prószyński, 2017b: 65, f. 29J, 30I (mf)
Sittisax saxicola Höfer et al., 2019: 77, f. 31a-d (m)

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