Spartaeinae


The Spartaeinae are a subfamily of the spider family Salticidae. 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, 1982Cocalodes Pocock, 1897Cucudeta Maddison, 2009Depreissia Lessert, 1942Tabuina Maddison, 2009Yamangalea Maddison, 2009

Tribe Lapsiini

Tribe Spartaeini

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