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Genus: Colyttus Thorell, 1891 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Colyttus bilineatus Thorell, 1891

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032837

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Described:

Distribution: India, Malaysia (peninsula), Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra, Moluccas)

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (20399) of Hyllus modestus - (Prószyński, 1984a)

Taxonomic References

Colyttus bilineatus Thorell, 1891: 132 (Df) Original description

Hyllus modestus Simon, 1899a: 113 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066716]

Colyttus bilineatus Simon, 1903a: 728, 737, f. 848-850 (m, S of Hyllus modestus)

Colyttus bilineatus Prószyński, 1984a: 19 (m)

Colyttus bilineatus Prószyński, 1987: 17 (m)

Colyttus bilineatus Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 31, f. 524-530, 884-885 (mf)

Colyttus bilineatus Prószyński, 2017b: 74, f. 38Q, 39R (mf)

Colyttus bilineatus Chetry, Caleb & Choudhury, 2026: 28259, f. 1-5 (m)

References

Chetry, M., Caleb, J. T. D. & Choudhury, P. (2026). First record of Colyttus bilineatus Thorell, 1891 (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 18(1): 28259-28262. doi: 10.11609/jott.10290.18.1.28259-28262 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1987). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej Siedlcach, 172 pp. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1899a). Contribution à la faune de Sumatra. Arachnides recueillis par M. J. L. Weyers, à Sumatra. (Deuxiéme mémoire). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 43: 78-125. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1903a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 669-1080. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1891). Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 24(2): 1-149. -- Show included taxa

Zhang, J. X. & Maddison, W. P. (2015). Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny. Zootaxa 3938(1): 1-147. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2026-01-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Chetry, Caleb & Choudhury, 2026
2026-01-29	Species distribution update	Chetry, Caleb & Choudhury, 2026	Old value
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2015-04-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang & Maddison, 2015