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

Hyllus thoracicus (Thorell, 1899)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036773

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Described:

Distribution: Cameroon

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden m (1805) - (Prószyński, 1984c)

Taxonomic References

Viciria thoracica Thorell, 1899: 98 (Dm [not f]) Original description

Viciria thoracica Prószyński & Żabka, 1980: 214, f. 3 (m)

"Viciria" thoracica Prószyński, 1984c: 435, f. 46-47 (m, should be transferred to other genus)

Telamonia thoracica Bodner & Maddison, 2012: 225 (T from Viciria)

Hyllus thoracicus Prószyński, 2017b: 36, f. 16H (m, T from Telamonia)

References

Bodner, M. R. & Maddison, W. P. (2012). The biogeography and age of salticid spider radiations (Araneae: Salticidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65(1): 213-240. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.06.005 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. & Żabka, M. (1980). Remarks on Oligocene amber spiders of the family Salticidae. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 25(2): 213-223. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984c). Remarks on Viciria and Telamonia (Araneae, Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 37: 417-436. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1899). Araneae Camerunenses (Africae occidentalis) quas anno 1891 collegerunt Cel. Dr Y. Sjöstedt aliique. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 25(IV, 1): 1-105. -- 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
2017-09-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2017-09-12	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2017b		Species transferred from Telamonia to Hyllus