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.

In synonymy:

Dicroneon Lohmander, 1944 = Neon Simon, 1876 (Lohmander, 1944: 7, as subgenus)

Gen. Neon Simon, 1876 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03094

N.B.: the subgenus Dicroneon Lohmander, 1944: 7 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06013] (type Attus levis Simon, 1871) is sometimes mentioned, but never at generic level (e.g. Wunderlich, 2008g: 727).

Transferred to other genera:

Neon armatus Caporiacco, 1947 -- see Jollas

In synonymy:

Neon kratochvili Miller, 1943 = Neon rayi Simon, 1875 (Prószyński, 1971e: 442)

Neon obliquus Banks, 1895 (removed from S of N. nelli, rejecting Chickering, 1944: 179) = Neon reticulatus Blackwall, 1853 (Gertsch & Ivie, 1955: 8)

Neon pusio Simon, 1937 = Neon convolutus Denis, 1937 (Logunov, 2004a: 34)

Neon rostratus Seo, 1995 = Neon minutus Żabka, 1985 (Logunov & Marusik, 2001: 148)

Neon acoreensis Wunderlich, 2008 | | Azores urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041789

Neon convolutus Wunderlich, 1992a: 521, f. 854 (f, misidentified)

Neon acoreensis Wunderlich in Borges & Wunderlich, 2008: 265, f. 19a-d (Dmf) Original description

Neon australis Richardson, 2013 | | Australia (South Australia) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:046302

Neon australis Richardson, 2013: 468, f. 25-29 (Dm) Original description

Neon avalonus Gertsch & Ivie, 1955 | | USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034961

Neon [Dicroneon] avalonus Gertsch & Ivie, 1955: 14, f. 17-20 (Dmf) Original description

Neon caboverdensis Schmidt & Krause, 1998 | | Cape Verde Is. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034962

Neon caboverdensis Schmidt & Krause, 1998: 426, f. 11 (Df) Original description

Neon convolutus Denis, 1937 | | Spain, France, Algeria urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034963

Neon pusio Simon, 1937: 1183, 1254 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034977]

Neon convolutus Denis, 1937b: 1055, pl. 5, f. 7-9 (Dm) Original description

Neon pusio Roberts, 1998: 207, f. (mf)

Neon (Dicroneon) convolutus Logunov, 2004a: 34, f. 7-9 (m, S of Neon pusio)

Neon ellamae Gertsch & Ivie, 1955 | | USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034964

Neon ellamae Gertsch & Ivie, 1955: 4, f. 1-4, 6-7 (Dmf) Original description

Neon ferrugineus Suguro, 2023 | | Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058498

Neon ferrugineus Suguro, 2023: 9, f. 1-7, 9-10 (Dmf) Original description

Neon kiyotoi Ikeda, 1995 | | Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034965

Neon kiyotoi Ikeda, 1995a: 30, f. 7-17, 48 (Dmf) Original description

Neon kiyotoi Ono, Ikeda & Kono, 2009: 585, f. 315-322 (mf)

Neon kiyotoi Suguro, 2023: 9, f. 8 (m)

Neon kovblyuki Logunov, 2004 | | Ukraine urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040850

Neon (Dicroneon) kovblyuki Logunov, 2004a: 33, f. 1-6 (Dmf) Original description

Neon levis (Simon, 1871) | | Europe, North Africa, Middle East, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Central Asia, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034966

Attus levis Simon, 1871a: 221 (Df) Original description

Neon levis Simon, 1876a: 211

Neon levis Dahl, 1926: 38, f. 112-113 (f, Dm)

Neon laevis Simon, 1937: 1183, 1254, f. 1860-1862 (mf)

Neon levis Tullgren, 1944: 42, f. 25, pl. 4, f. 67-70 (mf)

Neon (Dicroneon) laevis Lohmander, 1944: 7 (new subgenus)

Neon (Dicroneon) laevis Lohmander, 1945: 66, f. 63-68 (mf)

Neon laevis Wiehle, 1967a: 28, f. 124-125 (f)

Neon laevis Vilbaste, 1969: 166, f. 138A-D, 139A-B (mf)

Neon laevis Miller, 1971: 135, pl. XIX, f. 8 (m)

Neon laevis Ledoux, 1972: 95, f. 5 (f)

Neon levis Prószyński, 1979: 314, f. 224-226 (f)

Neon levis Flanczewska, 1981: 214, f. 73-74 (m)

Neon levis Zhou & Song, 1988: 4, f. 6a-d (f)

Neon levis Hu & Wu, 1989: 379, f. 282.8-9 (f)

Neon laevis Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 510, f. 1367 (mf)

Neon levis Hänggi, 1993: 313, f. 13 (m)

Neon levis Danilov & Logunov, 1994: 33, f. 3E (f)

Neon laevis Fuhn & Gherasim, 1995: 217, f. 101A-H (mf)

Neon levis Żabka, 1997: 68, f. 222-227 (mf)

Neon levis Roberts, 1998: 206, f. (mf)

Neon (Dicroneon) laevis Logunov, 1998a: 17, f. 24, 30 (f)

Neon (Dicroneon) levis Metzner, 1999: 65, f. 30a-h (mf)

Neon levis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 536, f. 305J, 306A (mf)

Neon levis Almquist, 2006: 543, f. 454a-f (mf)

Neon levis Lecigne, 2013: 185, f. 3J-K (m)

Neon levis Coşar, 2015: 368, f. 2A-E (m)

Neon levis Peng, 2020: 255, f. 178a-d (mf)

Neon levis Fernández-Pérez & Prieto, 2023b: 201, f. 2A-B (f)

Neon minutus Żabka, 1985 | | Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034967

Neon minutus Żabka, 1985: 420, f. 372-377 (Dmf) Original description

Neon minutus Ikeda, 1995a: 35, f. 25-33, 45 (mf)

Neon rostratus Seo, 1995b: 324, f. 1-7 (Dmf)

Neon minutus Logunov, 1998a: 20, f. 5-6, 11-12, 19, 25, 29, 34-41 (mf)

Neon minutus Logunov & Marusik, 2001: 148 (S)

Neon rostratus Namkung, 2002: 580, f. 43.24a-b (mf)

Neon minutus Namkung, 2003: 584, f. 43.24a-b (mf)

Neon minutus Ono, Ikeda & Kono, 2009: 587, f. 323-328 (mf)

Neon minutus Kim & Lee, 2014: 98, f. 70A-D (mf)

Neon minutus Peng, 2020: 256, f. 179a-d (mf)

Neon muticus (Simon, 1871) | | France (Corsica) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034968

Attus muticus Simon, 1871a: 220 (Dm) Original description

Neon muticus Simon, 1876a: 211

Neon muticus Simon, 1937: 1184, 1254, f. 1866 (m)

Neon muticus Prószyński, 1976: 187, f. 444-445 (m)

Neon nelli G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1888 | | USA, Canada urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034969

Neon nellii Peckham & Peckham, 1888: 88, pl. 1, f. 65, pl. 4, f. 65 (Dmf) Original description

Neon nelli Emerton, 1891: 240, pl. 20, f. 1 (mf)

Neon nelli Peckham & Peckham, 1895: 175, pl. 16, f. 8 (f)

Neon nelli Emerton, 1902: 47, f. 130-131 (mf)

Neon nelli Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 588, pl. 50, f. 5 (mf)

Neon nelli Chickering, 1944: 179, f. 74-77 (mf, S of Icius obliquus, rejected by Gertsch & Ivie, 1955: 8)

Neon nelli Kaston, 1948: 457, f. 1663-1666 (mf)

Neon nellii Gertsch & Ivie, 1955: 11, f. 9-11, 15 (mf)

Neon nellii Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 197, f. 2202-2204 (mf)

Neon nelli Edwards, 2015: 79, f. 39I-J (m)

Neon nigriceps Bryant, 1940 | | Cuba urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034970

Neon nigriceps Bryant, 1940: 504, pl. 22, f. 293, 297 (Dmf) Original description

Neon ningyo Ikeda, 1995 | | China, Korea, Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034971

Neon ningyo Ikeda, 1995a: 38, f. 34-44, 46 (Dmf) Original description

Neon ningyo Peng, Gong & Kim, 2000: 13, f. 1-4 (m)

Neon ningyo Ono, Ikeda & Kono, 2009: 587, f. 329-336 (mf)

Neon ningyo Yin et al., 2012: 1416, f. 770a-d (m)

Neon ningyo Lee, Yoo & Kim, 2016: 601, f. 1A-F (m)

Neon ningyo Peng, 2020: 257, f. 180a-d (m)

Neon ningyo Noguchi et al., 2023: 152, f. 3P-Q (f)

Neon nojimai Ikeda, 1995 | | Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034972

Neon nojimai Ikeda, 1995a: 33, f. 18-24, 49 (Dm) Original description

Neon nojimai Ono, Ikeda & Kono, 2009: 587, f. 337-340 (m)

Neon nojimai Ikeda, 2011: 1, f. 1-7 (Df)

Neon pictus Kulczyński, 1891 | | France to Ukraine, Central Asia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034973

Neon pictus Kulczyński in Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 45, pl. 1, f. 3 (Df) Original description

Neon pictus Bösenberg, 1903: 447, pl. 43, f. 654 (f)

Neon pictus Bartos, 1933: 86, f. 1 (m)

Neon pictus Denis, 1939b: 77, f. 6-9 (Dm)

Neon pictus Niculescu-Burlacu, 1968: 91, f. 5 (m, removed from S of N. levis)

Neon pictus Tystshenko, 1971: 83, f. 131 (f)

Neon pixii Gertsch & Ivie, 1955 | | USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034974

Neon pixii Gertsch & Ivie, 1955: 15, f. 21-24 (Dmf) Original description

Neon plutonus Gertsch & Ivie, 1955 | | USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034975

Neon plutonus Gertsch & Ivie, 1955: 8, f. 5, 8 (Dmf) Original description

Neon punctulatus Karsch, 1880 | | Bolivia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034976

Neon punctulatus Karsch, 1880c: 397 (Dm) Original description

Neon punctulatus Dupérré, 2023a: 197, f. 52A-C (m)

Neon rayi (Simon, 1875) | | Southern, Central Europe to Kazakhstan, Israel urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034978

Attus rayi Simon, 1875c: 94 (Dmf) Original description

Neon rayi Simon, 1876a: 212, pl. 11, f. 20 (mf)

Neon rayi Simon, 1901a: 573, f. 696 (m)

Neon rayi Simon, 1937: 1183, 1254, f. 1857-1859 (mf)

Neon kratochvili Miller, 1943: 28, pl. III, f. 11 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057263]

Neon kratochvili Miller, 1947: 91, pl. XIII, f. 13, pl. XVI (f)

Neon rayi Buchar & Zdárek, 1960: 99, f. 5C (f)

Neon rayi Wiehle, 1967a: 28, f. 126-129 (mf)

Neon rayi Miller, 1971: 135, pl. XIX, f. 5-7 (mf)

Neon rayi Prószyński, 1971e: 442 (S of Neon kratochvili)

Neon rayi Prószyński, 1976: 187, f. 438-443 (mf)

Neon rayi Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 512, f. 1368 (mf)

Neon rayi Roberts, 1998: 207, f. (mf)

Neon (Dicroneon) rayi Logunov, 1998a: 17

Neon rayi Metzner, 1999: 66, f. 31a-g (mf)

Neon rayi Zonstein, Marusik & Omelko, 2015: 381, f. 5a-d (f)

Neon reticulatus (Blackwall, 1853) | | North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, China, Korea, Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034979

Salticus reticulatus Blackwall, 1853: 14 (Df) Original description

Attus frontalis Westring, 1861: 587 (Df)

Salticus reticulatus Blackwall, 1861a: 60, pl. 3, f. 33 (f, Dm)

Attus frontalis Ohlert, 1867: 156 (Dm)

Attus reticulatus Simon, 1868b: 604

Neon reticulatus Simon, 1876a: 210

Euophrys frontalis L. Koch, 1877b: 175

Euophrys reticulata Menge, 1879: 497, pl. 82, f. 284 (mf)

Neon reticulatus Becker, 1882b: 76, pl. 4, f. 5 (mf)

Icius obliquus Banks, 1895e: 98 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057264]

Neon reticulatus Simon, 1901a: 577, f. 695

Neon reticulatus Bösenberg, 1903: 446, pl. 43, f. 653 (mf)

Neon reticulatus Dahl, 1926: 38, f. 114-115 (mf)

Neon reticulatus sphagnicola Dahl, 1926: 38 (D)

Neon reticulatus Simon, 1937: 1184, 1254, f. 1863-1865 (mf)

Neon reticulatus Palmgren, 1943: 20, f

Neon reticulatus Tullgren, 1944: 40, pl. 3, f. 60-62, pl. 4, f. 63 (mf)

Neon reticulatus Lohmander, 1945: 40, f. 40-46, 51 (mf)

Neon reticulatus Holm, 1945a: 3, f. (m)

Neon reticulatus Tullgren, 1946: 130, f. 38A, 39A-B (mf)

Neon reticulatus Locket & Millidge, 1951: 221, f. 109C, F (mf)

Neon reticulatus Gertsch & Ivie, 1955: 8, f. 12-14, 16 (mf, S of Neon obliquus, removed from S of N. nelli, rejecting Chickering, 1944: 179)

Neon reticulatus Kekenbosch, 1961b: 13, f. 18 (f)

Neon reticulatus Lehtinen & Kleemola, 1962: 105, f. 3 (f)

Neon reticulatus Wiehle, 1967a: 25, f. 120a-123a (mf)

Neon reticulatus Vilbaste, 1969: 162, f. 107F, 134A-B, 135A-B (mf)

Neon reticulatus Tystshenko, 1971: 82, f. 127 (f)

Neon reticulatus Miller, 1971: 135, pl. XIX, f. 11-12, pl. XXVII, f. 17 (mf)

Neon reticulatus Yaginuma & Nishikawa, 1971: 75, f. 1.5-6 (mf)

Neon reticulatus Brændegaard, 1972: 164, f. 94-95 (mf)

Neon reticulatus Utochkin & Pakhorukov, 1976: 80, f. 6 (f)

Neon reticulatus Prószyński, 1979: 314, f. 227 (f)

Neon reticulatus Thaler, 1982c: 403, f. 17 (m)

Neon reticulatus Roberts, 1985: 122, f. 50a (mf)

Neon reticulatus Yaginuma, 1986a: 242, f. 133.6 (mf)

Neon reticulatus Chikuni, 1989b: 159, f. 59 (f)

Neon reticulatus Chen & Zhang, 1991: 313, f. 332 (f)

Neon reticulatus Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 510, f. 1365 (mf)

Neon reticulatus Roberts, 1995: 193, f. (mf)

Neon reticulatus Fuhn & Gherasim, 1995: 221, f. 103A-H (mf)

Neon reticulatus Ikeda, 1995a: 28, f. 1-6, 18-19, 47 (mf)

Neon reticulatus Żabka, 1997: 69, f. 228-233 (mf)

Neon reticulatus Roberts, 1998: 205, f. (mf)

Neon reticulatus Logunov, 1998a: 17, f. 3-4, 7, 13-14, 20-22, 26, 28 (mf)

Neon reticulatus Snazell, Jonsson & Stewart, 1999: 251, f. 252. f. 5-8 (mf)

Neon reticulatus Namkung, 2002: 579, f. 43.23a-b (mf)

Neon reticulatus Cho & Kim, 2002: 113, f. 43-44, 146-147, 254-255 (mf)

Neon reticulatus Namkung, 2003: 583, f. 43.23a-b (mf)

Neon reticulatus Almquist, 2006: 544, f. 455a-i (mf)

Neon reticulatus Wunderlich, 2008f: 714, f. 21 (m)

Neon reticulatus Wunderlich, 2008g: 728, f. 46 (m)

Neon reticulatus Ono, Ikeda & Kono, 2009: 585, f. 308-314 (mf)

Neon reticulatus Russell-Smith, 2009c: 22, f. 1B, D, 2B, D (mf)

Neon reticulatus Kim & Lee, 2014: 99, f. 71A-D, pl. 20 (mf)

Neon reticulatus Marusik, Mikhailov & Omelko, 2015: 120 (S of Attus fuscostriatus, rejected by Breitling, 2015b: 478)

Neon reticulatus Prószyński, 2017b: 80, f. 35H (mf)

Neon reticulatus Prószyński, Lissner & Schäfer, 2018: 32, f. 3X-V (mf)

Neon reticulatus Peng, 2020: 259, f. 181a-e (mf)

Neon reticulatus Zarikian, 2022b: 172, f. 2A-C (mf)

Neon robustus Lohmander, 1945 | | Western, Central, Northern Europe urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034980

Neon robustus Lohmander, 1945: 48, f. 47-50, 52-56 (Dmf) Original description

Neon robustus Tullgren, 1946: 130, f. 38B, 39C-D (mf)

Neon robustus Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 510, f. 1366 (mf)

Neon robustus Logunov, 1998a: 17, f. 27 (f)

Neon robustus Snazell, Jonsson & Stewart, 1999: 251, f. 1-4 (mf)

Neon robustus Almquist, 2006: 546, f. 456a-f (mf)

Neon robustus Wunderlich, 2008g: 728, f. 45 (m)

Neon robustus Russell-Smith, 2009c: 22, f. 1A, C, 2A, C (mf)

Neon sumatranus Logunov, 1998 | | Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034982

Neon (Dicroneon) sumatranus Logunov, 1998a: 21, f. 1-2, 8-10, 16-17, 23, 42-48 (Dmf) Original description

Neon taylori Richardson, 2013 | | Australia (New South Wales, Victoria) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:046303

Neon taylori Richardson, 2013: 470, f. 31-37 (Dmf) Original description

Neon valentulus Falconer, 1912 | | Europe, Kazakhstan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034983

Neon valentulus Falconer, 1912: 321 (Df) Original description

Neon valentulus Tullgren, 1944: 41, pl. 4, f. 65-66 (Dm)

Neon valentulus Lohmander, 1945: 59, f. 57-62 (mf)

Neon valentulus Tullgren, 1946: 130, f. 38C (f)

Neon valentulus Locket & Millidge, 1951: 221, f. 109D, G (mf)

Neon valentulus Wiehle, 1967a: 25, f. 120b-123b (mf)

Neon valentulus Vilbaste, 1969: 164, f. 136A-D, 137A-B (mf)

Neon valentulus Miller, 1971: 135, pl. XIX, f. 9-10, pl. XXVII, f. 18 (mf)

Neon valentulus Ledoux, 1972: 94, f. 4 (f)

Neon valentulus Roberts, 1985: 122, f. 50b (mf)

Neon valentulus Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 510, f. 1364 (mf)

Neon valentulus Roberts, 1995: 194, f. (mf)

Neon valentulus Żabka, 1997: 70, f. 234-238 (mf)

Neon valentulus Roberts, 1998: 206, f. (mf)

Neon valentulus Logunov, 1998a: 17, f. 15, 18 (m)

Neon valentulus Logunov & Marusik, 2000: 286, f. 20-21 (f)

Neon valentulus Almquist, 2006: 547, f. 457a-g (mf)

Neon valentulus Wunderlich, 2008g: 728, f. 43-44 (m)

Neon valentulus Lecigne, 2016d: 20, f. 9C-D (m)

Neon valentulus Esyunin et al., 2024: 45, f. 2C (f)

Neon wangi Peng & Li, 2006 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040851

Neon wangi Peng & Li, 2006a: 127, f. 1-4 (Df) Original description

Neon wangi Peng, 2020: 260, f. 182a-d (f)

Neon zonatus Bao & Peng, 2002 | | Taiwan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039112

Neon zonatus Bao & Peng, 2002: 408, f. 19-21 (Df) Original description

Neon zonatus Peng, 2020: 261, f. 183a-c (f)