Hyllus (spider)
| Hyllus | |
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| Hyllus semicupreus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Arachnida | 
| Order: | Araneae | 
| Family: | Salticidae | 
| Subfamily: | Plexippinae | 
| Genus: |  Hyllus C. L. Koch, 1846  | 
| Type species | |
|  Hyllus giganteus C. L. Koch, 1846  | |
| Species | |
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| Diversity | |
| 70 species | |
Hyllus is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).
Most species occur in Africa and Madagascar, many in Australasia up to India. H. insularis is found in Greece and Iran; however, it is considered misplaced in this genus.[1]

Hyllus semicupreus hunting a grasshopper
Name
Hyllus was the son of Heracles and Deianira in Greek mythology.
Species
- Hyllus acutus (Blackwall, 1877) — Comoro Islands, Seychelles
 - Hyllus aethiopicus Strand, 1906 — Ethiopia
 - 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 — Ethiopia to South Africa
 - Hyllus carbonarius Lessert, 1927 — Congo
 - 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) — Myanmar, China to 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 giganteus whitei Thorell, 1877 — Sulawesi
 
 - Hyllus gulosus (Simon, 1877) — Philippines
 - Hyllus holochalceus Simon, 1910 — Bioko
 - Hyllus insularis Metzner, 1999 — Greece, Iran
 - Hyllus interrogationis (Strand, 1907) — Madagascar
 - Hyllus jallae Pavesi, 1897 — Africa
 - Hyllus janthinus (C. L. Koch, 1846) — Myanmar to Java
 - Hyllus juanensis Strand, 1907 — Mozambique
 - Hyllus keratodes (Hasselt, 1882) — Sumatra
 -  Hyllus lacertosus (C. L. Koch, 1846) — Vietnam to Java
- Hyllus lacertosus borneensis (Thorell, 1892) — Borneo
 
 - Hyllus leucomelas (Lucas, 1858) — West Africa
 - 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 pupillatus (Fabricius, 1793) — China
 - Hyllus ramadanii Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 — Tanzania
 - 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 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
 
Footnotes
- ↑ Logunov 2001
 
References
- 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
 
Further reading
- Metzner, H. (1999): Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279.
 
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