Lyssomanes
Encyclopedia
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 spider
s, except that they have large anterior median eyes.
s.
Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Approximately 80 species have been described, ranging from South
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
and Central America
Central America
Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. When considered part of the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent...
, up to the southern United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
They are long-legged, with translucent bodies frequently green or yellow. They resemble lynx spider
Lynx spider
Lynx Spiders are the members of the family Oxyopidae. They all are hunting spiders that spend their lives on plants, flowers and shrubs. At least one species has been identified as exhibiting social behaviour.-Description and habits:...
s, except that they have large anterior median eyes.
Habitat
Lyssomanes are typically found in foliage in mesic habitatMesic habitat
In ecology, a mesic habitat is a type of habitat with a moderate or well-balanced supply of moisture, e.g., a mesic forest, a temperate hardwood forest, or dry-mesic prairie. Compared to a dry habitat, a mesic habitat is moister....
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Species
- Lyssomanes adisi Logunov, 2002 — BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
- Lyssomanes amazonicus PeckhamGeorge and Elizabeth PeckhamGeorge Williams Peckham and Elizabeth Maria Gifford Peckham were early American teachers, taxonomists, ethologists, arachnologists, and entomologists, specializing in animal behavior and in the study of jumping spiders and wasps.-Lives and careers:George Peckham was born in Albany,...
& Wheeler, 1889 — BoliviaBoliviaBolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
, Brazil, GuyanaGuyanaGuyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
, EcuadorEcuadorEcuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border... - Lyssomanes anchicaya Galiano, 1984 — ColombiaColombiaColombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
- Lyssomanes antillanus Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 — CubaCubaThe Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
, JamaicaJamaicaJamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
, HispaniolaHispaniolaHispaniola is a major island in the Caribbean, containing the two sovereign states of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The island is located between the islands of Cuba to the west and Puerto Rico to the east, within the hurricane belt...
- 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 — El SalvadorEl SalvadorEl Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...
to VenezuelaVenezuelaVenezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south... - Lyssomanes blandus Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 — GuatemalaGuatemalaGuatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...
- Lyssomanes boraceia Galiano, 1984 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes bryantae ChickeringArthur M. ChickeringArthur Merton Chickering was a U.S. arachnologist. He was born on March 23, 1887 in North Danville, Vermont and died on May 24, 1974.He studied in Yale University under Alexander Petrunkevitch until 1913. In 1916 he earned a master of science degree in cytology and in 1927 a Ph.D. for cytological...
, 1946 — PanamaPanamaPanama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The... - Lyssomanes burrera Jiménez & Tejas, 1993 — MexicoMexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
- Lyssomanes camacanensis Galiano, 1980 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes ceplaci Galiano, 1980 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes consimilis BanksNathan BanksNathan Banks was an American entomologist noted for his work on neuroptera, megaloptera, hymenoptera, and acarina . He started work on mites in 1880 with the USDA...
, 1929 — Panama - Lyssomanes convexus Banks, 1909 — Costa RicaCosta RicaCosta Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
- Lyssomanes deinognathus F. O. P-CambridgeFrederick Octavius Pickard-CambridgeFrederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge was an English arachnologist. He is often confused with his uncle, Octavius Pickard-Cambridge , who was also an arachnologist and from whom F. O. Pickard-Cambridge picked up his enthusiasm for the study of spiders.-Life:F. O. Pickard-Cambridge was born in...
, 1900 — Mexico to HondurasHondurasHonduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize... - Lyssomanes devotoi Mello-LeitãoCândido Firmino de Mello-LeitãoCândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão, , was a Brazilian zoologist who is considered the founder of Arachnology in South America, publishing 198 papers on the taxonomy of Arachnida...
, 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 to Brazil
- Lyssomanes elongatus Galiano, 1980 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes euriensis Logunov, 2000 — PeruPeruPeru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
- Lyssomanes flagellum Kraus, 1955 — El Salvador
- Lyssomanes fossor Galiano, 1996 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes hieroglyphicus Mello-Leitão, 1944 — ArgentinaArgentinaArgentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
- Lyssomanes ipanemae Galiano, 1980 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes janauari Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes jemineus Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 — Mexico to Colombia
- Lyssomanes jucari Galiano, 1984 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes lancetillae Galiano, 1980 — Honduras
- Lyssomanes lehtineni Logunov, 2000 — Peru
- Lyssomanes leucomelas Mello-Leitão, 1917 — Brazil, Argentina
- Lyssomanes limpidus Galiano, 1980 — Colombia
- Lyssomanes longipes (TaczanowskiWladyslaw TaczanowskiWładysław Taczanowski was a Polish zoologist.-Life:A member of an old noble magnate family from the Poznań region, Taczanowski is considered one of the most important European zoologists of the nineteenth century...
, 1871) — Brazil, French GuianaFrench GuianaFrench Guiana is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department located on the northern Atlantic coast of South America. It has borders with two nations, Brazil to the east and south, and Suriname to the west... - Lyssomanes malinche Galiano, 1980 — Mexico
- Lyssomanes mandibulatus F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1900 — Mexico 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 — Honduras 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 PetrunkevitchAlexander PetrunkevitchAlexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch was an eminent arachnologist of his time. From 1910 to 1939 he described over 130 spider species.-Biography:...
, 1930 — Puerto RicoPuerto RicoPuerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
to MartiniqueMartiniqueMartinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of . Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia, and to the southeast Barbados... - Lyssomanes protarsalis F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1900 — Guatemala
- Lyssomanes quadrinotatus Simon, 1900 — Venezuela
- Lyssomanes reductus Peckham & Peckham, 1896 — Guatemala to Panama
- Lyssomanes remotus Peckham & Peckham, 1896 — 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 — Guatemala, Nicaragua
- Lyssomanes sylvicola Galiano, 1980 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes taczanowskii Galiano, 1980 — TrinidadTrinidadTrinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...
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 to Peru, Ecuador, Brazil
- Lyssomanes velox Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 — Brazil, Ecuador
- Lyssomanes vinocurae Galiano, 1996 — Brazil
- Lyssomanes viridis (WalckenaerCharles Athanase WalckenaerBaron Charles Athanase Walckenaer was a French civil servant and scientist.-Biography:Walckenaer was born in Paris and studied at the universities of Oxford and Glasgow. In 1793 he was appointed head of the military transports in the Pyrenees, after which he pursued technical studies at the École...
, 1837) — southeastern USA - Lyssomanes waorani Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Ecuador
- Lyssomanes yacui Galiano, 1984 — Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil
Further reading
(1977): Observations on the physiology of Lyssomanes viridis. Peckhamia 1(3): 41-44. PDFVideos
- David Edwin Hill: Courtship and mating of the jumping spider Lyssomanes viridis (Araneae: Salticidae) — Video
- David Edwin Hill: Feeding Lyssomanes viridis (Araneae: Salticidae) — Video