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Genus: Lyssomanes Hentz, 1845 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Lyssomanes leucomelas Mello-Leitão, 1917

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034318

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034318

Described:

Distribution: Mexico, Brazil, Argentina

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina m (16635) of Lyssomanes lupus - (Galiano, 1980b)
Lectotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Lyssomanes leucomelas Mello-Leitão, 1917, (00976); 1 m (destroyed by the fire 2018) -
Paralectotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Lyssomanes leucomelas Mello-Leitão, 1917, (02172); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018) -
Paratype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Lyssomanes lupus Mello-Leitão, 1945, (L); 2 m (destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Lyssomanes leucomelas Mello-Leitão, 1917c: 128, f. 13, 17 (Dmf; spelled leucomellas in heading, thus in legend) Original description

Lyssomanes lupus Mello-Leitão, 1945b: 271, f. 58 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061105]

Lyssomanes leucomelas Galiano, 1980a: 22, f. 52-54 (mf, S of Lyssomanes lupus)

Lyssomanes leucomelas Logunov, 2014a: 72, f. 54-58 (mf)

Lyssomanes leucomelas Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 64, f. 19, 20A-B, 21 (mf)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1980a). Revisión del género Lyssomanes Hentz, 1845 (Araneae, Salticidae). Opera Lilloana 30: 1-104. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. (2014a). New species and records of Lyssomanes Hentz, 1845 from Central and South Americas (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 23(1): 57-76. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.23.1.05 -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1917c). Aranhas novas ou pouco conhecidas de Thomisidas e Salticidas brasileiras. Archivos da Escola Superior de Agricultura e Medicina Veterinaria, Rio de Janeiro 1: 117-153, 2 pl. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1945b). Arañas de Misiones, Corrientes y Entre Ríos. Revista del Museo de La Plata (N.S.) 4(Zoología 29): 213-302. -- Show included taxa

Rubio, G. D., Baigorria, J. E. M. & Scioscia, C. L. (2018). Arañas saltícidas de Misiones. Guía para la identificación (tribus basales). Ediciones Fundación Azara, Universidad Maimónides, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 208 pp. -- 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
2025-08-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018
2014-07-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Logunov, 2014a
2014-07-07	Species distribution update	Logunov, 2014a	Old value