Lyssomanes

Lyssomanes
Temporal range: Neogene–present
male Lyssomanes viridis eating a nematoceran
(scale = 1 mm)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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]
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]

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference WSC_g2749 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Wunderlich, 1986
  3. ^ Wunderlich, 1988
  4. ^ 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.