Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Hyllus

Hyllus africanus Lessert, 1927

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-12-30
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033988]
  • Distribution: Guinea, Nigeria, DR Congo, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland; m (ARTO 27925) (Lessert, 1927)
  • Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland; 3m (ARTO 27926) (Lessert, 1927)
Taxonomic references
Hyllus africanus Lessert, 1927: 449, f. 26B (Dm).
Hyllus guineensis Berland & Millot, 1941: 335, f. 39 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034016].
Hyllus africanus Wesołowska, 2008: 321, f. 1-6 (m, S of Hyllus guineensis).
Hyllus africanus Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012: 747, f. 46-50 (Df).
References

Berland, L. & Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 12: 297-423. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1927). Araignées du Congo (Premiere partie). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 34: 405-475. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2008). Taxonomic notes on the genus Hyllus C. L. Koch, 1846 in Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 19: 319-334. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Edwards, G. B. (2012). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Calabar area (SE Nigeria). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 62(4): 733-772. doi:10.3161/000345412X659786 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Metzner, H. (2019). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2016). Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015. Part II. Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Version October 30th, 2016, online at http://www.salticidae.pl. download pdf

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-12-30 Species distribution update Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 n/a (Old value)