by Wayne Maddison
In America north of Mexico are a few hundred described species of jumping
spiders. The classification shown below is provisional, for the phylogeny
of the family is poorly known. To learn more about identifying salticids
north of the United States and Canada, check out the references
at the bottom of this page. To learn more about salticids around the
world, go to the salticid
section of the Tree of Life.
Touch on the name of a genus to learn about its representatives in
the United States and Canada.
Lyssomaninae
Lyssomanes
Thiodininae
Thiodina
Pelleninae
Habronattus
Pellenes
Sitticinae
Sitticus
Plexippinae
Bianor
Evarcha
Plexippus
Hyetussinae
Cyllodania
Bredana
Synemosyninae
Synemosyna
Sarinda
Heliophaninae
Marchena
Dendryphantinae
Agassa
Bagheera
Beata
Bellota
Dendryphantes
Eris
Hentzia
Ghelna
Metaphidippus
Paradamoetas
Pelegrina
Phanias
Phidippus
Poultonella
Pseudicius
Rhetenor
Sassacus
Terralonus
Tutelina
Zygoballus
Euophryinae
Corythalia
Chalcoscirtus
Euophrys
Habrocestum
Neon
Neonella
Sidusa
Talavera
Tylogonus
Ballinae
Ballus
Admestina
Synagelinae
Peckhamia
Cheliferoides
Synageles
miscellaneous
Hasarius
Maevia
Marpissa
Menemerus
Metacyrba
Paramarpissa
Phlegra
Platycryptus
Salticus
To help you learn to identify the jumping spiders of America north
of Mexico, some good beginning books are the Levi, Levi and Zim Spiders
and Their Kin, a Golden Guide, and Kaston's How to
Know the Spiders. The most detailed modern key to the genera
is that of Richman (1978), of which an
updated version appears in Vince Roth's book on spider genera. The last
comprehensive treatment of salticids north of Mexico was done by Peckham
and Peckham (1909). Below are various references relevant to salticids
north of Mexico.
References
Barnes, R. D. 1955. North American jumping spiders of the genus Maevia. American Museum Novitates 1746: 1-13.
Barnes, R. D. 1958. North American jumping spiders of the subfamily Marpissinae (Araneae, Salticidae). American Museum Novitates 1867: 1-50.
Cokendolpher, J. C. and N. V. Horner. 1978. The spider genus Poultonella. J. Arachnol. 6: 133-139.
Cutler, B. E. 1981. A Revision of the spider genus Paradamoetas (Araneae, Salticidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 170: 207-215.
Cutler, B. E. 1987. A revision of the American species of the antlike jumping spider genus Synageles (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 15(3): 321-348.
Cutler B. 1990. A revision of the western hemisphere Chalcoscirtus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bull. Brit. Arach. Soc., London, 8 (4): 105-108, 17 ff.
Cutler, B. E. and D. T. Jennings. 1985. A revision of the Metaphidippus arizonensis group (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 13(1): 1-8.
Galiano M.E. 1965. Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes IV. Revison del genero Sarinda Peckham, 1892. Rev. Mus. Argent. Cienc. Nat. Entomol. 1 (4): 267-312.
Galiano M. E. 1966. Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. V. RevisiÛn del genero Synemosyna Hentz. Rev. Mus. Argent. Cienc. Nat. Entomol. 1 (6): 339-380.
Galiano M.E. 1969. Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. IX. Adicion a las revisiones de los generos Martella y Sarinda. Physis, Buenos Aires, 28 (77): 247-255, 26 ff.
Galiano M.E. 1988. New species of Neonella Gertsch 1936 (Araneae, Salticidae). Revue suisse Zool., Geneve, 95 (2): 439-448.
Gertsch, W. J. and W. Ivie 1955. The spider genus Neon in North America. American Museum Novitates 1743: 1-17.
Griswold, C. E. 1987. A revision of the jumping spider genus Habronattus F.O.P.-Cambridge (Araneae; Salticidae), with phenetic and cladistic analyses. University of California Publications, Entomology 107: 1-344.
Kaston, B. J. 1945. New spiders in the group Dionycha with notes on other species. American Museum Novitates 1290:1-25.
Kaston, B. J. 1973. Four new species of Metaphidippus, with notes on related jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the eastern and central United States. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 92: 106-122.
Lowrie, D. C. and W. J. Gertsch, 1955. A list of spiders of the Grand Teton Park area with descriptions of, some new North American spiders. Am. Mus. Novit 1736: 1-29.
Maddison, W.P. 1978. Bianor aemulus (Gertsch, 1934), new combination (Araneae: Salticidae). Peckhamia 1: 76-77.
Maddison, W. P. 1987. Marchena and other jumping spiders with an apparent leg-carapace stridulatory mechanism (Araneae: Salticidae: Heliophaninae and Thiodininae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 7: 101-106.
Maddison, W.P. 1996. Pelegrina Franganillo and other jumping spiders formerly placed in the genus Metaphidippus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. l54(4): 215-368.
Peckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham. 1909. Revision of the Attidae of North America. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 16: 355-646.
Piel, W. H. 1991. The Nearctic jumping spiders of the genus Admestina (Aranaeae: Salticidae). Psyche. 98:265-281.
Platnick N. I. 1984. On the pseudoscorpion-mimicking spider Cheliferoides (Araneae: Salticidae). J. New York Ent. Soc. 92: 169-173.
Proszynski, J. 1968. Revision of the spider genus Sitticus Simon, 1901 (Araneida, Salticidae). I. The terebratus group. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw; Polska Akad. Nauk, Inst. Zool.) 25: 391-407.
Proszynski, J. 1971. Revision of the spider genus Sitticus Simon, 1901 (Aranei, Salticidae). II. Sitticus saxicola (C.L. Koch, 1848) and related forms. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw; Polska Akad. Nauk, Inst. Zool.) 28: 183-204.
Proszynski, J. 1973. Revision of the spider genus Sitticus Simon, 1901 (Aranei, Salticidae), III. Sitticus penicillatus (Simon, 1875) and related forms. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw; Polska Akad. Nauk, Inst. Zool.) 30: 71-95.
Proszynski, J. 1980. Revision of the spider genus Sitticus Simon, 1901 (Aranei, Salticidae), IV. Sitticus floricola (C. L. Koch) group. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw; Polska Akad. Nauk, Inst. Zool.) 36: 1-35.
Richman, D.B. 1978. Key to the jumping spider (salticid) genera of North America. Peckhamia 1:77-81.
Richman, D. B. 1981. A Revision of the genus Habrocestum (Araneae, Salticidae) in North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 170: 197-206.
Richman, D. B. 1989. A revision of the genus Hentzia (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology, 17: 285-344, 155 ff.
Richman, D. B. and B. E. Cutler. 1978. A list of the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the United States and Canada. Peckhamia 1(5): 82-110.
