Spartaeinae

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title: "Spartaeinae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["salticidae", "spider-subfamilies"] description: "Subfamily of spiders" topic_path: "general/salticidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartaeinae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Subfamily of spiders ::

| taxon = Spartaeinae | image = Portia.fimbriata.female.-.tanikawa.jpg | image_caption = female Portia fimbriata | authority = Wanless, 1984 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text.

The Spartaeinae are a subfamily of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). The subfamily was established by Fred R. Wanless in 1984 to include the groups Boetheae, Cocaleae, Lineae, Codeteae and Cyrbeae, which in turn were defined by Eugène Simon.

The Spartaeinae are palaeotropical, with an exceptional diversity in the Malaysian and Indonesian archipelagos.

They are unusual salticids that are considered basal to the phylogenetic tree of jumping spiders. Like the Lyssomaninae they lack many derived features that the Salticinae possess. Spartaeinae usually have large posterior median eyes. However, these were reduced in the genera Cyrba, Gelotia and Wanlessia.

Genera

In 2015, Spartaeinae was divided into three tribes with 29 genera. One has been added since.

Tribe Cocalodini

• Allococalodes Wanless, 1982
• Cocalodes Pocock, 1897
• Cucudeta Maddison, 2009
• Depreissia Lessert, 1942
• Tabuina Maddison, 2009
• Yamangalea Maddison, 2009

Tribe Lapsiini

• Amilaps Maddison, 2019
• Galianora Maddison, 2006
• Lapsamita Ruiz, 2013
• Lapsias Simon, 1900
• Soesiladeepakius Makhan, 2007
• Thrandina Maddison, 2006

Tribe Spartaeini

• Brettus Thorell, 1895
• Cocalus C. L. Koch, 1846
• Cyrba Simon, 1876
• Gelotia Thorell, 1890
• Holcolaetis Simon, 1886
• Meleon Wanless, 1984
• Mintonia Wanless, 1984
• Neobrettus Wanless, 1984
• Paracyrba Żabka & Kovac, 1996
• Phaeacius Simon, 1900
• Portia Karsch, 1878
• Sonoita Peckham & Peckham, 1903
• Sparbambus Zhang, Woon & Li, 2006
• Spartaeus Thorell, 1891
• Taraxella Wanless, 1984
• Veissella Wanless, 1984
• Wanlessia Wijesinghe, 1992
• Yaginumanis Wanless, 1984

References

References

1. (1995). "Spartaeinae".
2. (November 2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". Journal of Arachnology.
3. (2019). "A new lapsiine jumping spider from North America, with a review of Simon's ''Lapsias'' species (Araneae, Salticidae, Spartaeinae)". ZooKeys.
4. (1901). "Histoire naturelle des araignées".
5. (1984). "A review of the spider subfamily Spartaeinae nom. n. (Araneae:Salticidae) with descriptions of six genera". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series.
6. (1992). "A new genus of jumping spider from Borneo with notes on the Spartaeine palp (Araneae: Salticidae)". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.
7. (2006). "A new genus and species of jumping spiders (Araneae:Salticidae:Spartaeinae) from Malaysia". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.

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