Lyssomanes
| Lyssomanes | |
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| male Lyssomanes viridis eating a nematoceran (scale = 1 mm) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Section: | Dionycha |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Lyssomaninae |
| Genus: | Lyssomanes Hentz, 1845 |
| Type species | |
| Attus viridis Walckenaer, 1837 | |
| Species | |
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| Diversity | |
| 80 species | |
Lyssomanes is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Approximately 80 species have been described, ranging from South and Central America, up to the southern United States.
They are long-legged, with translucent bodies frequently green or yellow. They resemble lynx spiders, except that they have large anterior median eyes.
Habitat
Lyssomanes are typically found in foliage in mesic habitats.
female L. viridis from Florida
Species
- Lyssomanes adisi Logunov, 2002 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes amazonicus Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 — Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana, Ecuador
- Lyssomanes anchicaya Galiano, 1984 — Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
- Lyssomanes antillanus Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 — Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola
- Lyssomanes antillanus fasciatus Franganillo, 1935 — Cuba
- Lyssomanes austerus Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 — Brazil, Argentina
- Lyssomanes belgranoi Galiano, 1984 — Argentina
- Lyssomanes benderi Logunov, 2002 — Brazil, Ecuador
- Lyssomanes bitaeniatus Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 — Guatemala, El Salvador,Nicaragua?, Costa Rica, Panama to Venezuela
- Lyssomanes blandus Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 — Guatemala
- Lyssomanes boraceia Galiano, 1984 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes bryantae Chickering, 1946 — Panama
- Lyssomanes burrera Jiménez & Tejas, 1993 — Mexico
- Lyssomanes camacanensis Galiano, 1980 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes ceplaci Galiano, 1980 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes consimilis Banks, 1929 — Panama
- Lyssomanes convexus Banks, 1909 — Costa Rica
- Lyssomanes deinognathus F. O. P-Cambridge, 1900 — Mexico to Honduras
- Lyssomanes devotoi Mello-Leitão, 1917 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes dissimilis Banks, 1929 — Panama
- Lyssomanes diversus Galiano, 1980 — Mexico
- Lyssomanes eatoni Chickering, 1946 — Panama
- Lyssomanes ecuadoricus Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Ecuador
- Lyssomanes elegans F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1900 — Mexico, Belize,etc, Panama to Brazil
- Lyssomanes elongatus Galiano, 1980 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes euriensis Logunov, 2000 — Peru
- Lyssomanes flagellum Kraus, 1955 — El Salvador
- Lyssomanes fossor Galiano, 1996 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes hieroglyphicus Mello-Leitão, 1944 — Argentina
- Lyssomanes ipanemae Galiano, 1980 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes janauari Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes jemineus Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 — Mexico.Guatemla, Costa Rica, Panama to Colombia
- Lyssomanes jucari Galiano, 1984 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes lancetillae Galiano, 1980 — Honduras, Nicaragua
- Lyssomanes lehtineni Logunov, 2000 — Peru
- Lyssomanes leucomelas Mello-Leitão, 1917 — Brazil, Argentina
- Lyssomanes limpidus Galiano, 1980 — Colombia
- Lyssomanes longipes (Taczanowski, 1871) — Brazil, French Guiana
- Lyssomanes malinche Galiano, 1980 — Mexico
- Lyssomanes mandibulatus F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1900 — Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica? to Panama
- Lyssomanes michae Brignoli, 1984 — West Indies
- Lyssomanes miniaceus Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 — Brazil, Argentina
- Lyssomanes minor Schenkel, 1953 — Venezuela
- Lyssomanes nigrofimbriatus Mello-Leitão, 1941 — Brazil, Argentina
- Lyssomanes nigropictus Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 — Brazil, Guyana, Ecuador
- Lyssomanes onkonensis Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Ecuador
- Lyssomanes parallelus Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes paravelox Logunov, 2002 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes parki Chickering, 1946 — Panama
- Lyssomanes patens Peckham & Peckham, 1896 — Belize/Honduras?, Costa Rica to Panama
- Lyssomanes pauper Mello-Leitão, 1945 — Brazil, Argentina
- Lyssomanes penicillatus Mello-Leitão, 1927 — Brazil, Argentina
- Lyssomanes peruensis Logunov, 2000 — Peru
- Lyssomanes pescadero Jiménez & Tejas, 1993 — Mexico
- Lyssomanes pichilingue Galiano, 1984 — Ecuador
- Lyssomanes placidus Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 — Mexico
- Lyssomanes portoricensis Petrunkevitch, 1930 — Puerto Rico to Martinique
- Lyssomanes protarsalis F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1900 — Guatemala
- Lyssomanes quadrinotatus Simon, 1900 — Venezuela
- Lyssomanes reductus Peckham & Peckham, 1896 — Mexico, Guatemala, Belize/Honduras? to Panama
- Lyssomanes remotus Peckham & Peckham, 1896 — Guatemala, Panama to Brazil
- Lyssomanes robustus (Taczanowski, 1879) — Peru, Brazil
- Lyssomanes romani Logunov, 2000 — Brazil, Ecuador
- Lyssomanes santarem Galiano, 1984 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes spiralis F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1900 — Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua
- Lyssomanes sylvicola Galiano, 1980 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes taczanowskii Galiano, 1980 — Trinidad to Peru, Ecuador
- Lyssomanes tapirapensis Galiano, 1996 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes tapuiramae Galiano, 1980 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes tarmae Galiano, 1980 — Peru
- Lyssomanes temperatus Galiano, 1980 — Mexico
- Lyssomanes tenuis Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 — Brazil, Ecuador
- Lyssomanes trifurcatus F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1900 — Panama
- Lyssomanes trinidadus Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Trinidad
- Lyssomanes tristis Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 — Brazil, Argentina
- Lyssomanes unicolor (Taczanowski, 1871) — Mexico(?), Panama to Peru, Ecuador, Brazil
- Lyssomanes velox Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 — Brazil, Ecuador
- Lyssomanes vinocurae Galiano, 1996 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes viridis (Walckenaer, 1837) — southeastern USA
- Lyssomanes waorani Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Ecuador
- Lyssomanes yacui Galiano, 1984 — Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil
References
- Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
Further reading
- Hill, David Edwin (1977): Observations on the physiology of Lyssomanes viridis. Peckhamia 1(3): 41-44. PDF
External links
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Videos
- David Edwin Hill: Courtship and mating of the jumping spider Lyssomanes viridis (Araneae: Salticidae) — Video
- David Edwin Hill: Feeding Lyssomanes viridis (Araneae: Salticidae) — Video
Pictures
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