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

Hyllus lwoffi Berland & Millot, 1941

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034030

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mozambique

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

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Taxonomic References

Hyllus lwoffi Berland & Millot, 1941: 337, f. 41 (Df) Original description

Hyllus lwoffi Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 36, f. 21A-D (f)

Hyllus lwoffi Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025: 615, f. 16A-D (f)

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

Wawer, W. & Wesołowska, W. (2025). Jumping spiders from Ghana collected by J. Prószyński (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 75(2): 599-628. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2025.75.2.013 -- 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

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
2025-06-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025
2025-06-29	Species distribution update	Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025	Old value
2024-12-30	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2022-10-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
2022-10-16	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022	Old value