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

Lyssomanes penicillatus Mello-Leitão, 1927

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034332

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Argentina

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

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Syntype: Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP/MZUSP), Brazil m (947) - (Galiano, 1980b)

Taxonomic References

Lyssomanes penicillatus Mello-Leitão, 1927c: 407, pl. 15, f. 3 (Dm) Original description

Lyssomanes penicillatus Galiano, 1962b: 77, f. 1, pl. IV, f. 4-7 (m)

Lyssomanes penicillatus Galiano, 1980a: 24, f. 56-57 (m)

Lyssomanes penicillatus Wanless, 1980d: 216, f. 2G (m)

Lyssomanes penicillatus Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 73, f. 30, 31A-C (m)

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

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1927c). Arachnideos de Santa Catharina (Brasil). Revista do Museu Paulista 15: 393-418. -- 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

Wanless, F. R. (1980d). A revision of the spider genera Asemonea and Pandisus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 39(4): 213-257. -- 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