Hyllus dotatus (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033392

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Described:

Distribution: Sudan, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Central African Rep., Ethiopia, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Yemen


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Taxonomic References
Habrocestum dotatum Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 239, pl. 27, f. 6 (Dmf) Original description
Hyllus ventrilineatus Strand, 1906b: 665 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054777]
Hyllus ventrilineatus Strand, 1908l: 63, pl. 2, f. 12 (f)
Hyllus ventrilineatus Lessert, 1915a: 80, pl. 3, f. 64-65, 79-80 (f, Dm)
Thyene damarensis Lawrence, 1927: 63, pl. 2, f. 50 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036595]
Hyllus ventrilineatus Berland & Millot, 1941: 340, f. 44-45 (mf)
Hyllus dotatum Clark, 1974: 17 (T from Habrocestum, S of Hyllus ventrilineatus)
Habrocestum dotatum Prószyński, 1987: 37 (f)
Evarcha cara Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994: 22, f. 50-51 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033387]
Hyllus corniger Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994: 43, f. 93-96 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054771]
Evarcha dotata Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 23, f. 29-36 (mf, T from Hyllus, S of Hyllus corniger)
Evarcha elegans Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 26, f. 37-41 (Dm; f f. 42-44 see Evarcha werneri) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033394]
Hyllus dotatus Logunov, 2004d: 87, f. 1-2 (f, T from Evarcha, S of Evarcha cara)
Evarcha dotata Wesołowska & van Harten, 2007: 199, f. 27-31 (f)
Hyllus dotatus Azarkina & Foord, 2013: 174, f. 43-47 (f, S of Thyene damarensis)
Evarcha elegans Prószyński, 2018b: 153, f. 13E (m; f f. 13F see Evarcha werneri)
Hyllus dotatus Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 49, f. 32A-B (m, S of Evarcha elegans, removed from S of Evarcha werneri, rejecting Logunov & Azarkina, 2018: 110)
Evarcha werneri Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b: 37, f. 5 (m; misidentified sensu Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 49)
Hyllus dotatus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 58, f. p. 53: f. 5-6, p. 58: f. 1-10, p. 59: f. 1-5 (mf)
References

Azarkina, G. N. & Foord, S. H. (2013). Redescriptions of poorly known species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from South Africa and Namibia. Zootaxa 3686(2): 165-182. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3686.2.3 -- Show included taxa

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., Van der Walt, V., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025b). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 2 (E-Ha). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 65 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15266589 -- 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

Lawrence, R. F. (1927). Contributions to a knowledge of the fauna of South-West Africa V. Arachnida. Annals of the South African Museum 25(1): 1-75, pl. 1-4. -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1915a). Arachnides de l'Ouganda et de l'Afrique orientale allemande. Voyage du Dr J. Carl dans la région des lacs de l'Afrique centrale. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 23(1): 1-89, pl. 1-3. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. (2004d). Taxonomic notes on a collection of jumping spiders from Sudan (Araneae, Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 86-90. -- 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

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

Prószyński, J. (2018b). Review of genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax [sic], Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 16: 130-179. doi: 10.37828/em.2018.16.12 -- 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. (1908l). Verzeichnis der von Oscar Neumann in Süd-Aethiopien gesammelten Spinnen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 74(I,1): 13-66. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Harten, A. van (1994). The jumping spiders (Salticidae, Araneae) of Yemen. Yemeni-German Plant Protection Project Sana'a, 86 pp. -- 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

Wesołowska, W. & Harten, A. van (2007). Additions to the knowledge of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Yemen. Fauna of Arabia 23: 189-269. -- 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
2026-01-12 Species distribution update Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026 Old value
2025-09-13 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c
2025-06-29 Species distribution update Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025 Old value
2025-04-24 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b
2024-09-06 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2018b
2024-09-06 Species synonymy Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Hyllus elegans synonymized with Hyllus dotatus
2024-09-06 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000
2024-09-06 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000

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