[1] Salticoida includes the bulk of extant jumping spider diversity, with over 400 genera organized phylogenetically into 18 tribes according to Wayne Maddison's 2015 proposal.

Some of these spiderlings can travel for almost a month at altitudes of several kilometres above sea level, and many species occur all around Earth in a band around one particular latitude.

Dispersal from southeast Asia or Australasia all across the Pacific is thus another viable hypothesis for the amycoid-salticoid split despite the massive distance involved.

[1] Indeed, a few minor, unusual and possibly very ancient and basal lineages of salticoids are found in and around Southeast Asia, and might be considered relicts in the ancestral range.

But their relationships are not yet robustly enough determined: The Agoriini (genera Agorius, Synagelides and maybe Pseudosynagelides) are most unusual ant mimics whose relationships are entirely obscure; they are so highly autapomorphic it is hard to tell if they are truly ancient among the salticoids, or are a very strongly divergent offshoot of one of the more conventional tribes – ant mimicry has evolved convergently 5 to 10 times in the salticoids.