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

Lyssomanes patens G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034330

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Described:

Distribution: Honduras to Panama

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

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Taxonomic References

Lyssomanes patens Peckham & Peckham, 1896: 99, pl. 4, f. 8 (Dmf) Original description

Lyssomanes patens F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 186, pl. 13, f. 1-2 (mf)

Lyssomanes trifurcatus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 184, pl. 13, f. 9-10 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034355]

Lyssomanes patens Chickering, 1946: 26 (S of Lyssomanes trifurcatus)

Lyssomanes patens Galiano, 1980a: 49, f. 107-109, 131-132 (mf)

References

Chickering, A. M. (1946). The Salticidae of Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 97: 1-474. -- 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. (1896). Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 3: 1-101, pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1900). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 89-192, pl. 6-15. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- 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
2025-08-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Chickering, 1946
2025-08-17	Species synonymy	Chickering, 1946		Lyssomanes trifurcatus synonymized with Lyssomanes patens