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Genus: Hyllus C. L. Koch, 1846 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Hyllus aegyptiacus (Denis, 1947)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034944

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Described:

Distribution: Egypt

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

Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Denis can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Neaetha aegyptiaca Denis, 1947a: 78, pl. 5, f. 14-15 (Dm; f f. 16 see Evarcha aegyptiaca) Original description

Neaetha aegyptiaca Logunov, 2009a: 269 (may belong to Evarcha)

Hyllus aegyptiacus Prószyński, 2018b: 151, f. 10N (m, T from Neaetha)

References

Denis, J. (1947a). Results of the Armstrong College expedition to Siwa Oasis (Libyan desert), 1935. Spiders [Araneae]. Bulletin de la Société Fouad 1^er d'Entomologie 31: 17-103, pl. 1-6. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. (2009a). Further notes on the Harmochireae of Africa (Araneae, Salticidae, Pelleninae). ZooKeys 16: 265-290. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.16.227 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2018b). Review of genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax [sic], Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 16: 130-179. doi: 10.37828/em.2018.16.12 -- 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.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2019-01-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2018b
2019-01-20	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2018b	Species transferred from Neaetha to Hyllus
2019-01-20	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Evarcha aegyptiaca (Prószyński, 2018)