World Spider Catalog

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

Hyllus ghanensis Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065449

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Described:

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Distribution: Ghana

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026)

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Holotype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland f (ARA 016862) - (Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025)
Paratype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland 1f (ARA 015081) - (Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Hyllus ghanensis Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025: 614, f. 14A-E (Df) Original description

References

Wawer, W. & Wesołowska, W. (2025). Jumping spiders from Ghana collected by J. Prószyński (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 75(2): 599-628. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2025.75.2.013 -- 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.

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-06-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025
2025-06-29	New species inserted	Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025