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

Lyssomanes pauper Mello-Leitão, 1945

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034331

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Described:

Distribution: 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 f (16640) - (Galiano, 1980b)
Paratype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Lyssomanes pauper Mello-Leitão, 1945, (02171); 1 m 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Lyssomanes pauper Mello-Leitão, 1945b: 272, f. 59 (Df) Original description

Lyssomanes pauper Galiano, 1962b: 80, pl. V, f. 1-5 (f, Dm)

Lyssomanes pauper Galiano, 1980a: 53, f. 104 (f)

Lyssomanes pauper Logunov, 2002: 238, f. 23-24 (f)

Lyssomanes pauper Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 71, f. 27, 28A-C, 29 (mf)

References

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

Logunov, D. V. (2002). New species and new records of Lyssomanes Hentz, 1845 from Brazil (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae). Reichenbachia 34: 229-239. -- 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	Comment
2025-08-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018