Hyllus brevitarsis Simon, 1902

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034000

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Described:

Distribution: Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Tanzania, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa


Type Repository Provide information
  • Syntype: Durban Natural Science Museum, Durban, South Africa 7m - (Lessert, 1925b)
  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany m (destroyed 1944) of Hyllus rubrotinctus - (Renner, 1988b)
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France mm ff (6384, 19622) - (Clark, 1974)
Taxonomic References
Hyllus brevitarsis Simon, 1902a: 391 (Dmf) Original description
Hyllus natalii Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 210, pl. 23, f. 4 (Df; named after Natal) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054774]
Hyllus rubrotinctus Strand, 1906b: 665 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054776]
Hyllus natalii Strand, 1909a: 75 (Dm)
Hyllus natali Lessert, 1925a: 495, f. 76 (f)
Hyllus natalii Caporiacco, 1940c: 863, f. 54 (m)
Hyllus brevitarsis Bacelar, 1953: 6 (S of Hyllus rubrotinctus)
Hyllus natalensis Bonnet, 1957: 2550 (unjustified emendation)
Hyllus brevitarsis Clark, 1974: 17 (S of Hyllus natali)
Hyllus brevitarsis Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 190, f. 71-74 (f)
Hyllus brevitarsis Wesołowska, 2008: 323, f. 7-26 (mf, S of Hyllus brevitarsis peckhamorum, rejected by Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 37)
Hyllus brevitarsis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 54, p. 53: f. 3-4, p. 56: f. 1-4, p. 57: f. 1-7 (mf)
References

Bacelar, A. (1953). Algumas aranhas de Moçambique (colecção de Rose Monteiro). Arquivos do Museu Bocage 24: 1-19. -- Show included taxa

Bonnet, P. (1957). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (3me partie: G-M). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 1927-3026. -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1940c). Aracnidi raccolte nella Reg. dei Laghi Etiopici della Fossa Galla. Atti della Reale Accademia d'Italia 11: 767-873. -- 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

Strand, E. (1906b). Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 30: 604-637, 655-690. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1909a). Nordafrikanische, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelte Oxyopiden und Salticiden. (Forts. u. Schluss.). Societas Entomologica, Organ für den Internationalen Entomologen-Verein 23: 155-188, 24: 4-91. -- Show included taxa

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

Wesołowska, W. & Cumming, M. S. (2008). Taxonomy and natural history of a species rich assemblage of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae); a long-term study of a suburban site in Zimbabwe. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 58: 167-230. -- 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
2022-10-16 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Hyllus peckhamorum Berland & Millot, 1941

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