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

Lyssomanes nigropictus G. W. Peckham, E. G. Peckham & Wheeler, 1889

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034327

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador

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

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Taxonomic References

Lyssomanes nigropictus Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889: 235, pl. 11, f. 10 (Dm) Original description

Lyssomanes nigropictus Simon, 1901a: 391, f. 394-395, 410-411 (m)

Lyssomanes nigropictus Crane, 1943: 126, f. 1A-E (m, Df)

Lyssomanes nigropictus Galiano, 1962b: 73, pl. IV, f. 1-3 (m)

Lyssomanes nigropictus Galiano, 1980a: 31, f. 28-29 (Df)

Lyssomanes nigropictus Carvalho & Gasnier, 2019: CB34, f. 147-148 (m)

References

Carvalho, T. G. de & Gasnier, T. R. J. (2019). Illustrated inventory of spiders from Amazonas state, Brazil: 94 understory species from a forest fragment in Manaus. Scientia Amazonia 8(2): CB1-CB53. -- Show included taxa

Crane, J. (1943). Spiders of the families Lyssomanidae and Salticidae from British Guiana and Venezuela. Zoologica (New York) 28: 125-138. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1962b). Redescripciones de especies del género Lyssomanes Hentz, 1845, basadas en los ejemplares tipicos. Descripción du una especies nueva (Araneae, Salticidae). Acta Zoológica Lilloana 18: 45-97. -- Show included taxa

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

Peckham, G. W., Peckham, E. G. & Wheeler, W. H. (1889). Spiders of the subfamily Lyssomanae. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 7: 221-256, pl. 11-12. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- 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
2020-06-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Carvalho & Gasnier, 2019
2015-03-16	Species updated		Old value	Author corrected
2014-09-14	Species distribution update	Courtial et al., 2014	Old value
2014-07-07	Species distribution update	Logunov, 2014a	Old value