Hyllus (spider)

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

Hyllus
Hyllus semicupreus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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
69, see text

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

Description

They are medium to large spiders, commonly mistaken by those in the genus Evarcha . They are usually stout, hairy and dully colored. They usually have horns at the top of the median eyes formed by long bristles. They have a rounded carapace, which is larger than the eye field. Those in the genus Evarcha are usually smaller and their carapace is thinner. ^[3]

Hyllus semicupreus hunting a grasshopper

An adult female Hyluss brevitarsus feeds on a subadult female Nephila senegalensis.

Name

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

Species

As of October 2022 ^[update] , the World Spider Catalog accepted these species: ^[2]

• Hyllus acutus (Blackwall, 1877) – Comoro Islands, Seychelles
• Hyllus aegyptiacus (Denis, 1947) – Egypt
• Hyllus africanus Lessert, 1927 – Congo Basin
• 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 – 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 flavescens Simon, 1902 – South Africa
• Hyllus giganteus C. L. Koch, 1846 – Sumatra to Australia
• Hyllus gulosus (Simon, 1877) – Philippines
• Hyllus holochalceus Simon, 1910 – Bioko
• Hyllus ignotus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast
• 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, Central Africa
• Hyllus longiusculus (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon
• Hyllus lugubris (Vinson, 1863) – Madagascar
• Hyllus lwoffi Berland & Millot, 1941 – Guinea, Ivory Coast
• Hyllus madagascariensis (Vinson, 1863) – Madagascar
• 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 nigeriensis (Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012) – Nigeria
• Hyllus nummularis (Gerstäcker, 1873) – Zanzibar
• Hyllus peckhamorum Berland & Millot, 1941 – Ivory Coast
• 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 shanhonghani Lin & Li, 2022 – China
• Hyllus solus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast
• Hyllus stigmatias (L. Koch, 1875) – Ethiopia
• Hyllus suillus Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon
• Hyllus thoracicus (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon
• Hyllus treleaveni Peckham & Peckham, 1902 – Central, East, Southern Africa
• Hyllus tuberculatus Wanless & Clark, 1975 – Ivory Coast
• Hyllus unicolor Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast
• Hyllus viduatus Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia
• Hyllus vinsoni (Peckham & Peckham, 1885) – 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 17 October 2022
3. Caleb, John; Christudhas, Anulin; Laltanpuii, K.; Chitra, Muthaiyan (2014). "New species of Hyllus C. L. Koch (Araneae: Salticidae) from India". ResearchGate. Retrieved October 16, 2022.
4. Gilman, R.T. (2016): Intraguild predation by a salticid (Hyllus brevitarsus) on a large orb weaver (Nephila senegalensis). Peckhamia 134.1.

Further reading

• Logunov, D.V. (2001): New and poorly known species of the jumping spiders (Aranei: Salticidae) from Afghanistan, Iran and Crete. Arthropoda Selecta10: 59–66.
• 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. Andrias14: 1–279.

External links

• Pictures of Hyllus diardi
• Frontal view of H. diardi