Lyssomanes
Lyssomanes | |
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male Lyssomanes viridis eating a nematoceran (scale = 1 mm) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
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]
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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]
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]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Lviridis_Ross.jpg/220px-Lviridis_Ross.jpg)
female L. viridis from Florida
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A male courting a female of Lyssomanes sp., from Costa Rica
Species[]
As of July 2020, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]
- Logunov, 2002 – Brazil
- Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana
- Galiano, 1984 – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
- Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Saba
- Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil, Argentina
- Logunov, 2015 – French Guiana
- Galiano, 1984 – Argentina
- Logunov, 2002 – Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana
- Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – El Salvador to Venezuela
- Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Guatemala
- Galiano, 1984 – Brazil
- Chickering, 1946 – Panama
- Jiménez & Tejas, 1993 – Mexico
- Galiano, 1980 – Brazil
- Galiano, 1980 – Brazil
- Banks, 1929 – Panama
- Banks, 1909 – Costa Rica
- Logunov, 2015 – French Guiana
- F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Mexico to Honduras
- Mello-Leitão, 1917 – Brazil
- Banks, 1929 – Panama
- Galiano, 1980 – Mexico
- Chickering, 1946 – Panama
- Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Ecuador
- Lyssomanes elegans F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Mexico to Brazil
- Galiano, 1980 – Brazil
- Logunov, 2000 – Peru
- Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador
- Galiano, 1996 – Brazil
- Galvis, 2020 – Mexico
- Mello-Leitão, 1944 – Argentina
- Galiano, 1980 – Brazil, French Guiana
- Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Brazil
- Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Mexico to Guyana
- Galiano, 1984 – Brazil
- Logunov, 2014 – Guyana
- Galiano, 1980 – Honduras, Nicaragua
- Logunov, 2000 – Peru
- Mello-Leitão, 1917 – Mexico, Brazil, Argentina
- Galiano, 1980 – Colombia
- (Taczanowski, 1871) – Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana
- Logunov, 2014 – Mexico
- Galiano, 1980 – Mexico
- Logunov, 2014 – Brazil
- F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Mexico to Panama
- Logunov, 2014 – Brazil
- Logunov, 2014 – Mexico
- Brignoli, 1984 – West Indies
- Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil, Argentina
- Schenkel, 1953 – Venezuela
- Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Brazil, Argentina
- Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador
- Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Ecuador
- Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil
- Logunov, 2002 – Brazil
- Chickering, 1946 – Panama
- Peckham & Peckham, 1896 – Honduras to Panama
- Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Brazil, Argentina
- Mello-Leitão, 1927 – Brazil, Argentina
- Galvis, 2017 – Colombia
- Logunov, 2000 – Peru
- Jiménez & Tejas, 1993 – Mexico
- Galiano, 1984 – Ecuador
- Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Mexico
- Petrunkevitch, 1930 – Puerto Rico to Martinique
- F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Guatemala
- Simon, 1900 – Venezuela
- Peckham & Peckham, 1896 – Mexico to Panama
- Peckham & Peckham, 1896 – Panama to Brazil
- (Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru, Brazil
- Logunov, 2000 – Brazil, Ecuador
- Logunov, 2015 – French Guiana
- Galiano, 1984 – Brazil
- Logunov, 2014 – Brazil
- Logunov, 2014 – Brazil
- F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Mexico to Nicaragua
- Galiano, 1980 – Brazil
- Galiano, 1980 – Trinidad to Peru, Ecuador
- Galiano, 1996 – Venezuela, French Guiana, Brazil
- Galiano, 1980 – Brazil
- Galiano, 1980 – Peru
- Galiano, 1980 – Mexico
- Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Guyana
- F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Panama
- Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Trinidad
- Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil, Argentina
- (Taczanowski, 1871) – Mexico to Peru, Ecuador, Brazil
- Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil, Ecuador
- Galiano, 1996 – Brazil
- Lyssomanes viridis (Walckenaer, 1837) (type species) – USA
- Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Ecuador
- Galvis, 2017 – Colombia
- Galiano, 1984 – Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Gen. Lyssomanes Hentz, 1845", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2019-05-06
- ^ Wunderlich, 1986
- ^ Wunderlich, 1988
- ^ 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.
Further reading[]
- Hill, David Edwin (1977). "Observations on the physiology of Lyssomanes viridis." Peckhamia 1(3): 41-44. PDF
- Teodore, C. & Johnsen, S. (2013). "Pheromones exert top-down effects on visual recognition in the jumping spider Lyssomanes viridis". The Journal of Experimental Biology 216, 1744-1756. PDF
External links[]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lyssomanes. |
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[]
Categories:
- Salticidae genera
- Spiders of North America
- Spiders of South America
- Taxa named by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz
- Salticidae