Hyllus (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Hyllus"

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image_caption = male "H. giganteus"
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Plexippinae
tribus = Hyllini
genus = "Hyllus"
genus_authority = C. L. Koch, 1846
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Hyllus
diversity = 72 species
type_species = "Hyllus giganteus"
type_species_authority = C. L. Koch, 1846
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subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text

"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.Logunov 2001]

Name

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

pecies

* "Hyllus acutus" (Blackwall, 1877) — Comoro Islands, Seychelles
* "Hyllus aethiopicus" Strand, 1906 — Ethiopia
* "Hyllus africanus" Lessert, 1927 — Congo
* "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 brevitarsis peckhamorum" Berland & Millot, 1941 — West 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 guineensis" Berland & Millot, 1941 — Guinea
* "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 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 normanae" Wanless & Clark, 1975 — Ivory Coast
* "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

References

* (2001): New and poorly known species of the jumping spiders (Aranei: Salticidae) from Afghanistan, Iran and Crete. "Arthropoda Selecta" 10: 59-66.
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".

Further reading

* (1999): Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. "Andrias" 14: 1-279.

External links

* [http://www.schlangenforum.ch/wbb2/thread.php?postid=99281#post99281 Pictures of "Hyllus diardi"]