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

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

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034356

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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

Lectotype: Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP/MZUSP), Brazil f (840) of Lyssomanes dubius - (Galiano, 1980b)
Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Lyssomanes tristis Peckham & Wheeler, 1889, (417) -
Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Lyssomanes bifasciatus Mello-Leitão, 1917, (00975); 1 m (destroyed by the fire 2018) -
Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Lyssomanes quadripunctatus Mello-Leitão, 1917, (00982); 1 f (survived the fire 2018) -
Lectotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Chinoscopus brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1917, (02927); 1 m (destroyed by the fire 2018) -
Paralectotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Chinoscopus brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1917, (00978); 1 m (destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Lyssomanes tristis Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889: 232, pl. 11, f. 12 (Df) Original description

Chinoscopus brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1917a: 100 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061101]

Lyssomanes bifasciatus Mello-Leitão, 1917c: 125, f. 5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061099]

Lyssomanes quadripunctatus Mello-Leitão, 1917c: 128, f. 15 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061110]

Lyssomanes dubius Mello-Leitão, 1927c: 407 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061103]

Lyssomanes dubius Galiano, 1962b: 61, pl. III, f. 10 (f)

Lyssomanes tristis Galiano, 1965a: 132 (S of Lyssomanes dubius and L. quadripunctatus)

Lyssomanes tristis Galiano, 1980a: 40, f. 65-68, 80-81 (mf, S of Chinoscopus brasiliensis and Lyssomanes bifasciatus)

Lyssomanes tristis Logunov, 2014a: 74, f. 21, 61-62 (f)

Lyssomanes tristis Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 75, f. 32A-C, 33A-B (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. (1965a). Algunas especies de Salticidae (Araneae) nuevas para la Argentina. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 25: 129-133. -- 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. (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 (1917a). Notas arachnologicas. 5, Especies novas ou pouco conhecidas do Brasil. Brotéria (Ser. Zool.) 15: 74-102. -- 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 (1927c). Arachnideos de Santa Catharina (Brasil). Revista do Museu Paulista 15: 393-418. -- 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

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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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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
2015-03-16	Species updated		Old value	Author corrected
2014-07-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Logunov, 2014a