Hyllus (spider)

Hyllus is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Hyllus (disambiguation).

Hyllus
Hyllus semicupreus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Hyllus
C. L. Koch, 1846
Type species
Hyllus giganteus
C. L. Koch, 1846
Species

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Most species occur in Africa and Madagascar, with many in Australasia and north to India. H. insularis is found in Greece and Iran, but it is considered misplaced in this genus,[1] and is now Evarcha insularis.[2]

Hyllus semicupreus hunting a grasshopper

Name

Hyllus was the son of Heracles and Deianira in Greek mythology.

Species

As of March 2019, the World Spider Catalog accepted these species:[2]

  • Hyllus acutus (Blackwall, 1877) – Comoro Islands, Seychelles
  • Hyllus aegyptiacus (Denis, 1947) – Egypt
  • Hyllus aethiopicus Strand, 1906 – Ethiopia
  • Hyllus africanus Lessert, 1927 – Congo basin
  • Hyllus albocinctus (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon, Gabon
  • Hyllus albofasciatus Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon
  • Hyllus albomarginatus (Lenz, 1886) – Madagascar
  • Hyllus albooculatus (Vinson, 1863) – Madagascar
  • Hyllus alboplagiatus Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon
  • Hyllus angustivulvus Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia
  • Hyllus argyrotoxus Simon, 1902 – West, East, Southern Africa
  • Hyllus atroniveus Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia
  • Hyllus aubryi (Lucas, 1858) – Gabon
  • Hyllus bifasciatus Ono, 1993 – Madagascar
  • Hyllus bos (Sundevall, 1833) – India
  • Hyllus brevitarsis Simon, 1902 – Ethiopia to South Africa
  • Hyllus congoensis Lessert, 1927 – Ivory Coast, Congo
  • Hyllus cornutus (Blackwall, 1866) – Africa
  • Hyllus decellei Wanless & Clark, 1975 – Ivory Coast
  • Hyllus decoratus Thorell, 1887 – Myanmar
  • Hyllus deyrollei (Lucas, 1858) – Gabon, Ivory Coast
  • Hyllus diardi (Walckenaer, 1837) – India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, China to Indonesia (Java)
  • Hyllus dotatus (Peckham & Peckham, 1903) – Sudan to Southern Africa, Yemen
  • Hyllus duplicidentatus Caporiacco, 1941 – Ethiopia
  • Hyllus erlangeri Strand, 1906 – Ethiopia
  • Hyllus flavescens Simon, 1902 – South Africa
  • Hyllus fur Strand, 1906 – Ethiopia
  • Hyllus fusciventris Strand, 1906 – Ethiopia
  • Hyllus giganteus C. L. Koch, 1846 – Sumatra to Australia
  • Hyllus gulosus (Simon, 1877) – Philippines
  • Hyllus holochalceus Simon, 1910 – Bioko
  • Hyllus interrogationis (Strand, 1907) – Madagascar
  • Hyllus jallae Pavesi, 1897 – Africa
  • Hyllus juanensis Strand, 1907 – Mozambique
  • Hyllus keratodes (Hasselt, 1882) – Sumatra
  • Hyllus leucomelas (Lucas, 1858) – West Africa
  • Hyllus longiusculus (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon
  • Hyllus lugubrellus Strand, 1908 – Madagascar
  • Hyllus lugubris (Vinson, 1863) – Madagascar
  • Hyllus lwoffi Berland & Millot, 1941 – Guinea
  • Hyllus madagascariensis (Vinson, 1863) – Madagascar
  • Hyllus manensis Strand, 1906 – Ethiopia
  • Hyllus manu John T. D. Caleb, Christudhas A., Laltanpuii, K. & Chitra, M, 2014 – Chennai
  • Hyllus maskaranus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
  • Hyllus minahassae Merian, 1911 – Sulawesi
  • Hyllus mniszechi (Lucas, 1858) – Gabon
  • Hyllus multiaculeatus Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
  • Hyllus nebulosus Peckham & Peckham, 1907 – Borneo
  • Hyllus nossibeensis Strand, 1907 – Madagascar
  • Hyllus nummularis (Gerstäcker, 1873) – Zanzibar
  • Hyllus pachypoessae Strand, 1907 – Cameroon
  • Hyllus plexippoides Simon, 1906 – Ivory Coast to Egypt
  • Hyllus pudicus Thorell, 1895 – India, Myanmar
  • Hyllus pulcherrimus Peckham & Peckham, 1907 – Borneo
  • Hyllus qishuoi Xiong, Liu & Zhang, 2017 – China
  • Hyllus ramadanii (Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000) – Tanzania
  • Hyllus remotus Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2011 – Nigeria
  • Hyllus robinsoni Hogg, 1919 – Sumatra
  • Hyllus rotundithorax Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania
  • Hyllus sansibaricus Roewer, 1951 – Zanzibar
  • Hyllus semicupreus (Simon, 1885) – India, Sri Lanka
  • Hyllus senegalensis (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Senegal
  • Hyllus stigmatias (L. Koch, 1875) – Ethiopia
  • Hyllus suillus Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon
  • Hyllus thoracicus (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon
  • Hyllus thyeniformis Strand, 1906 – Ethiopia
  • Hyllus treleaveni Peckham & Peckham, 1902 – Central, East, Southern Africa
  • Hyllus tuberculatus Wanless & Clark, 1975 – Ivory Coast
  • Hyllus viduatus Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia
  • Hyllus vinsoni (Peckham & Peckham, 1885) – Madagascar
  • Hyllus virgillus Strand, 1907 – Madagascar
  • Hyllus walckenaeri (White, 1846) – Borneo, Sulawesi

References
  1. Logunov 2001
  2. "Gen. Hyllus C. L. Koch, 1846", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2019-03-03

Further reading
  • Logunov, D.V. (2001): New and poorly known species of the jumping spiders (Aranei: Salticidae) from Afghanistan, Iran and Crete. Arthropoda Selecta 10: 59-66.
  • Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
  • Caleb, J. T. D., Christudhas, A., Laltanpuii, K. & Chitra, M (2014): A new species of Hyllus from India
  • Metzner, H. (1999): Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279.
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