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

Hyllus treleaveni G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1902

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034057

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa

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

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Syntype: Durban Natural Science Museum, Durban, South Africa 1m 1f - (Lessert, 1925b)
Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium f (122028) of Hyllus normanae - (Wanless & Clark, 1975)

Taxonomic References

Hyllus treleavenii Peckham & Peckham, 1902: 334 (Dj) Original description

Hyllus treleavenii Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 207, pl. 23, f. 3 (Df)

Hyllus moestus Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 208, pl. 23, f. 5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034037]

Hyllus bevisi Lessert, 1925a: 495, f. 77-78 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033997]

Hyllus marleyi Lessert, 1925b: 352, f. 15 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034033]

Hyllus normanae Wanless & Clark, 1975: 280, f. 13-14 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034040]

Hyllus moestus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 42, f. 84-88 (f)

Hyllus treleaveni Wesołowska & Cumming, 2004: 579, f. 1-30 (mf, S of Hyllus bevisi, H. marleyi and H. moestus)

Hyllus treleaveni Wesołowska, 2008: 333 (S of Hyllus normanae)

Hyllus treleaveni Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 61, p. 61: f. 1-5, p. 62: f. 1-7 (mf)

References

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

Lessert, R. de (1925b). Araignées du sud de l'Afrique (suite). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 32: 323-365. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117932 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1902). Some new genera and species of Attidae from South Africa. Psyche 9(312): 330-335. doi: 10.1155/1902/13502 -- 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

Wanless, F. R. & Clark, D. J. (1975). On a collection of spiders of the family Salticidae from the Ivory Coast (Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 89: 273-296. -- 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. & Cumming, M. S. (2004). A redescription and natural history of Hyllus treleaveni Peckham et Peckham, 1902, the largest jumping spider in Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 54: 579-586. -- 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

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