Hyllus argyrotoxus Simon, 1902

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033994

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Described:

Distribution: Ivory Coast, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini


Type Repository Provide information
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 2m (20017) - (Clark, 1974)
Taxonomic References
Hyllus argyrotoxus Simon, 1902a: 391 (Dm) Original description
Hyllus perspicuus Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 209, pl. 23, f. 2 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054775]
Hyllus perspicuus Lessert, 1925a: 492, f. 75 (mf)
Hyllus perspicuus Berland & Millot, 1941: 338, f. 43 (m)
Hyllus argyrotoxus Clark, 1974: 16 (S of Hyllus perspicuus)
Hyllus argyrotoxus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 39, f. 77-83 (mf)
Hyllus argyrotoxus Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 47, f. 31A-H (mf)
Hyllus argyrotoxus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 54, p. 53: f. 1-2, p. 54: f. 1-5, p. 55: f. 1-9 (mf)
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. -- Show included taxa

Clark, D. J. (1974). Notes on Simon's types of African Salticidae. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 3(1): 11-27. -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Walt, V. van der, Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025c). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 3 (He-Iran). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 74 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17103454 -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1925a). Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Merou (suite). 5. Salticidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 31: 429-528. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1902a). Etudes arachnologiques. 32e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 71(1-2): 389-421. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2000). Jumping spiders from Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania (Araneae Salticidae). Tropical Zoology 13(1): 11-127. doi: 10.1080/03946975.2000.10531126 -- Show included taxa

Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda – revised list, new species and distributional data. European Journal of Taxonomy 952: 1-171. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647 -- 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 Comment
2025-09-13 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c
2025-09-13 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c Old value
2024-12-30 Species distribution update Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value
2024-09-06 New taxonomic reference entry Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-09-06 Species distribution update Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value

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