Lyssomanes

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Lyssomanes
Temporal range: Neogene–present
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male Lyssomanes viridis eating a nematoceran
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Lyssomaninae
Genus: Lyssomanes
Hentz, 1845 [1]
Type species
Attus viridis
Walckenaer, 1837 [1]
Species

See text.

Diversity
93 species

Lyssomanes is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders), ranging from South and Central America, up to the southern United States. [1]

Contents

There have been described 94 extant and two fossil species [2] [3] from the Neotropical Region. The genera Lyssomanes, Chinoscopus , Hindumanes , and Sumakuru make up the Lyssomaninae, which is one of the six deeply-diverging subfamilies of jumping spiders. [4]

They are long-legged, with translucent bodies frequently green or yellow. They resemble lynx spiders, except that they have large anterior median eyes.[ citation needed ]

Habitat

Lyssomanes are typically found in foliage in mesic habitats.[ citation needed ]

female L. viridis from Florida Lviridis Ross.jpg
female L. viridis from Florida

Species

As of July 2020, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Gen. Lyssomanes Hentz, 1845", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2019-05-06
  2. Wunderlich, 1986
  3. Wunderlich, 1988
  4. Galvis, William (11 July 2020). "The genus Lyssomanes (Araneae: Salticidae: Lyssomaninae) in Mexico: a new species, new taxonomic notes and records" (PDF). Peckhamia. 212 (1): 1–13.

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