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Genus: Hyllus C. L. Koch, 1846 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Hyllus leucomelas (Lucas, 1858)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034027

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Described:

Distribution: Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Gabon, DR Congo, Uganda

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

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Taxonomic References

Salticus leucomelas Lucas, 1858: 391, pl. 13, f. 5 (Dm) Original description

Hyllus leucomelas Simon, 1887a: 262 (Df, T from Salticus)

Hyllus leucomelas Lessert, 1927: 451, f. 28 (m)

Hyllus leucomelas Berland & Millot, 1941: 336, f. 40 (m)

Hyllus leucomelas Wesołowska, 2008: 329, f. 37-42 (m)

Hyllus leucomelas Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 34, f. 20A-D (f)

Hyllus leucomelas Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 52, f. 34A-B (f)

Hyllus leucomelas Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 836, f. 25A-C (m)

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

Lessert, R. de (1927). Araignées du Congo (Premiere partie). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 34(17): 405-475. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117612 -- Show included taxa

Lucas, H. (1858). Aptères. In: Thomson, J. (ed.) Voyage au Gabon. Archives Entomologiques de M. J. Thomson 2, 377-445, pl. 12-13. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.11206 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1887a). Etudes arachnologiques. 19e Mémoire. XXVII. Arachnides recueillis à Assinie (Afrique occidentale) par MM. Chaper et Alluaud. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 7: 261-276. -- 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. & Russell-Smith, A. (2022). Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J.-C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 841: 1-143. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Henrard, A. (2025). New data on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains, Guinea. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 75(3): 811-912. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2025.75.3.010 -- 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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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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
2025-10-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025
2024-09-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-09-06	Species distribution update	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2022-10-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022