Salticoida

The Salticoida are a group of jumping spiders. Most salticid genera (more than 90% of all described species) belong to this unranked clade, with all others believed to be basal to the Salticidae.

Among the subfamilies in this clade are the following:^[1]

• Euophryinae
• Freyinae
• Heliophaninae
• Salticinae
• Marpissoida

• Dendryphantinae
• Ballinae
• Synagelinae
• Marpissinae
• Itata

• Plexippoida

• Pelleninae
• Plexippinae

• Amycoida

• Thiodininae
• Amycinae
• Synemosyninae
• Hyetussinae
• Sitticinae

• Hurieae

• Admesturius
• Hurius
• Maenola
• Scoturius
• Simonurius

• Hisponinae

The Amycoida form a large neotropical radiation from which only the related Sitticus and Attulus have reached the Old World. The Marpissoida are also mainly found in the New World. The Plexippoida are, except for Habronattus, an Old World group, as are the Heliophaninae. This suggests that much of the diversification of the salticids occurred after the separation of the continents of Old and New World.^[2]

Among the salticids not included in the Salticoida are:

• Lyssomaninae
• Spartaeinae
• Hisponinae
• "Lapsiines": Lapsias, Galianora, Thrandina
• Heratemita
• Platycryptus
• Maevia
• Mantisatta
• Metacyrba
• Carrhotus
• Helpis
• Lagnus
• Orthrus
• Paramarpissa
• Phlegra
• Trite
• Psecas
• Hasarius
• Ligurra
• Eupoa

Footnotes

References

• Maddison, W.P. & Hedin, M.C. (2003): Jumping spider phylogeny (Araneae: Salticidae). Invertebrate Systematics 17: 529–549. PDF doi:10.1071/IS02044
• Maddison, Wayne P. (2006): New lapsiine jumping spiders from Ecuador (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 1255: 17-28. PDF

Further reading

• Maddison, Wayne P.; Bodner, Melissa R. & Needham, Karen M. (2008): Salticid spider phylogeny revisited, with the discovery of a large Australasias clade (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 1893: 49-64. Abstract