DIGITAL EDITIONS

This is a library of digital (PDF, but not scanned text) versions of earlier papers on the Salticidae, primarily those in the public domain.  Papers that are not available elsewhere on the Internet may be included here.  If you would like to add to this collection, please contact Dr. David E. Hill, platycryptus@yahoo.com.

Bohdanowicz and Hęciak 1980Bohdanowicz, J. and S. Hęciak. 1980. Redescription of two species of Salticidae (Aranei) from China.  Annales zoologici, Warszawa 35 (18): 247-256, figs. 1-19.
Cambridge 1874Cambridge, O. P.  1874.  On some new genera and species of Araneidea. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 4, Volume 14, Issue Number 81, Paper 24: 169-183, plate XVII.
Dunn 1947Dunn, R. A. 1947.  A new salticid spider from Victoria.  Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 15: 82―85.
Emerton 1891Emerton, J. H. 1891. New England Spiders of the Family Attidae.  Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Science VIII (XIV): 220-252, plates XVI-XXI.
Emerton 1902Emerton, J. H.  1902.  The Attidae.  In: Common Spiders of the United States (The Athenaeum Press, Ginn & Company, Publishers, Boston, U. S. A., and London, i-xviii, 1-225).  41-66.
Hentz 1832 to 1875Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus. 1832—1875. Collected works on Lyssomanes, Attus, Epiblemum and Synemosyna of the United States.
Jackson 1986Jackson., R. R. 1986. The biology of Phyaces comosus (Araneae: Salticidae), predatory behaviour, antipredator adaptations and silk utilization. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 50(2): 109-116.
Muttkowski 1914Muttkowski, R. A. 1914.  George Williams Peckham, M.D., LL.D.  Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 25 (4):  145―148, Plate VI.
Peckham 1889Peckham, E. G.  1889.  Protective resemblances in spiders.  Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 1 (2): 61―113, Plates III―IV.
Peckham 1908Peckham, G. W. 1908 The generic name Rooseveltia. Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society 6: 171.
Peckham and Peckham 1883Peckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham. 1883. Descriptions of new or little known spiders of the family Attidae, from various parts of the United States of North America. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 1-35, plates I-III.
Peckham and Peckham 1885aPeckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham. 1885. On some new genera and species of the family Attidae, from Madagascar and Central America. Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin for 1885: 23-42, plate I.
Peckham and Peckham 1885bPeckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham. 1885. On some new genera and species of Attidae from the eastern part of Guatemala. Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin for 1885: 62-86, plate II.
Peckham and Peckham 1885cPeckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham. 1885. Genera of the family Attidae:  with a partial synonymy. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 6: 255-342, tables I-IV.
Peckham and Peckham 1887Peckham, G. W., and E. G. Peckham. 1887. Some observations on the mental powers of spiders.  The Journal of Morphology 1 (2): 383―419.
Peckham and Peckham 1888Peckham, G. W., and E. G. Peckham. 1888. Attidae of North America.  Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 7: 1―104, plates I―VI.
Peckham and Peckham 1889Peckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham.  1889.  Observations on sexual selection in spiders of the family Attidae.  Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 1 (1): 1―60. Plates I―III.
Peckham and Peckham 1890Peckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham.  1890.  Additional observations on sexual selection in spiders of the family Attidae, with some remarks on Mr. Wallace's theory of sexual ornamentation. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 1 (3): 117―151.
Peckham and Peckham 1892Peckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham. 1892. Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(1): 1-83, plates I-VII.
Peckham and Peckham 1893Peckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham. 1893. On the spiders of the family Attidae of the Island of St. Vincent.  Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 47: 692-704, plates LXI-LXII (1894).
Peckham and Peckham 1894Peckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham. 1894. Spiders of the Marptusa group. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(2): 83-156, plates VIII-XIV.
Peckham and Peckham 1895aPeckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham. 1895. New Trinidad spiders of the family Attidae. Journal of the Trinidad Field Naturalist's Club 2: 212-216.
Peckham and Peckham 1895bPeckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham. 1895. The sense of sight in spiders with some observations on the color sense. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 10: 231-261.
Peckham and Peckham 1895cPeckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham. 1895. Spiders of the Homalattus group of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(3): 157-178, plates XV-XVI, index.
Peckham and Peckham 1896Peckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham.  1896.  Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico.  Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 3(1): 1-101, plates I-VII, index.
Peckham and Peckham 1901aPeckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham.  1901.  Pellenes and some other genera of the family Attidae.  Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society 1 (new series) (4): 195-233, plates I-II.
Peckham and Peckham 1901bPeckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham. 1901. On spiders of the family Attidae found in Jamaica. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for 1901 (2): 6-16, plates II-IV.
Peckham and Peckham 1901cPeckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham. 1901.  Spiders of the Phidippus group of the family Attidae. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 13(1): 282-358, plates XXIII-XXVIII.
Peckham and Peckham 1902Peckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham.  1902.  Some new genera and species of Attidae from South Africa.  Psyche 9: 330-335.
Peckham and Peckham 1903Peckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham.  1903.  New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian Region.  Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 14(1): 173-278, plates XIX-XXIX.
Peckham and Peckham 1907Peckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham.  1907.  The Attidae of Borneo.  Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 15: 603-653.
Peckham and Peckham 1909Peckham, G. W. and E. G. Peckham.  1909.  Revision of the Attidae of North America.  Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Vol. XVI, Part 1, No. 5: 355-646.
Peckham et al 1888Peckham, G. W., E. G. Peckham, and W. H. Wheeler.  1888.  Spiders of the subfamily Lyssomanae.  Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 7: 221-256, plates XI, XII.
Pickard-Cambridge 1897-1905Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. 1897—1905. Fam. Salticidae. in: Biologia Centrali Americana, Arachnida Araneida and Opiliones. Vol. II. i, v—x, 1, 42,166—303, 541—545, 587—610, plates XI—XXIX.
Pickard-Cambridge 1894-1896Pickard-Cambridge, O. 1894, 1896. New Salticidae. in: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Arachnida - Araneida, Vol. I: v, vii, xii―xv, 121―122, 162―164, plates XIX, XX, XV.
Prószyński 1962Prószyński, J. 1962.  Redescription of Sitticus godlewskii (Kulczyński, 1895) (Araneida, Salticidae) and remarks on its systematic position.  Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences 10 (2): 65-68, figs. 1-5.
Wanless 1986Wanless, F. R. 1986. A revision of the spider genus Phyaces (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 50(2): 103-108.

female Phidippus clarus


Visual display of an adult female Phidippus clarus.  Visual displays are not confined to courting male salticids.  This female raised itself high above the surface of a blackberry (Rubus) leaf, waving her extended legs I and pedipalps up and down in unison to expose her iridescent chelicerae and a shiny black area beneath the distal femora of legs I.  The spider was not facing any other spider, or its reflection. One working hypothesis is that this behavior represents a general-purpose advertisement intended to elicit movement by any otherwise-concealed visual hunters (including vertebrates or other salticids) in the vicinity, thereby disclosing their presence.