Lyssomanes

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Neogene|present}} | image = Hill Lyssomanes viridis 02.jpg | image_caption = male ''Lyssomanes viridis'' eating a nematoceran (scale = 1 mm) | taxon = Lyssomanes | authority = Hentz, 1845<ref name=WSC_g2749/> | diversity = 93 species | diversity_link = #Species | type_species = ''Attus viridis'' | type_species_authority = Walckenaer, 1837<ref name=WSC_g2749/> | subdivision = See text. | subdivision_ranks = Species }}

'''''Lyssomanes''''' is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders), ranging from South and Central America, up to the southern United States.<ref name="WSC_g2749"/>

There have been described 93 extant and two fossil species<ref name="Wunderlich237"/> from the Neotropical Region. The genera ''Lyssomanes'', ''Chinoscopus'', ''Hindumanes'', and ''Sumakuru'' make up the Lyssomaninae, which is one of the six deeply-diverging subfamilies of jumping spiders.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Galvis |first1=William |title=The genus Lyssomanes (Araneae: Salticidae: Lyssomaninae) in Mexico: a new species, new taxonomic notes and records |journal=Peckhamia |date=11 July 2020 |volume=212 |issue=1 |pages=1–13 |url=https://peckhamia.com/peckhamia/PECKHAMIA_212.1.pdf }}</ref>

They are long-legged, with translucent bodies frequently green or yellow. They resemble lynx spiders, except that they have large anterior median eyes.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

==Habitat== ''Lyssomanes'' are typically found in foliage in mesic habitats.{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}} thumb|female ''L. viridis'' from Florida

==Species== {{As of|2025|08|df=}}, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:<ref name=WSC_g2749/> {{Div col|colwidth=30em}} *''Lyssomanes adisi'' Logunov, 2002 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes amazonicus'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana *''Lyssomanes anchicaya'' Galiano, 1984 – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia *''Lyssomanes antillanus'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Saba *''Lyssomanes austerus'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil, Argentina *''Lyssomanes aya'' Logunov, 2015 – French Guiana *''Lyssomanes belgranoi'' Galiano, 1984 – Argentina *''Lyssomanes benderi'' Logunov, 2002 – Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana *''Lyssomanes bitaeniatus'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – El Salvador to Venezuela *''Lyssomanes blandus'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Guatemala *''Lyssomanes boraceia'' Galiano, 1984 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes bryantae'' Chickering, 1946 – Panama *''Lyssomanes burrera'' Jiménez & Tejas, 1993 – Mexico *''Lyssomanes camacanensis'' Galiano, 1980 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes ceplaci'' Galiano, 1980 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes consimilis'' Banks, 1929 – Panama *''Lyssomanes convexus'' Banks, 1909 – Costa Rica *''Lyssomanes courtiali'' Logunov, 2015 – French Guiana *''Lyssomanes deinognathus'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Mexico to Honduras *''Lyssomanes devotoi'' Mello-Leitão, 1917 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes dissimilis'' Banks, 1929 – Panama *''Lyssomanes diversus'' Galiano, 1980 – Mexico *''Lyssomanes eatoni'' Chickering, 1946 – Panama *''Lyssomanes ecuadoricus'' Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Ecuador *''Lyssomanes elegans'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Mexico to Brazil *''Lyssomanes elongatus'' Galiano, 1980 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes euriensis'' Logunov, 2000 – Peru *''Lyssomanes flagellum'' Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador *''Lyssomanes florenciae'' Bedoya-Róqueme, 2022 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes fossor'' Galiano, 1996 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes franckei'' Galvis, 2020 – Mexico *''Lyssomanes hieroglyphicus'' Mello-Leitão, 1944 – Argentina *''Lyssomanes ipanemae'' Galiano, 1980 – Brazil, French Guiana *''Lyssomanes janauari'' Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes jemineus'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Mexico to Guyana *''Lyssomanes jucari'' Galiano, 1984 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes lampeli'' Logunov, 2014 – Guyana *''Lyssomanes lancetillae'' Galiano, 1980 – Honduras, Nicaragua *''Lyssomanes lehtineni'' Logunov, 2000 – Peru *''Lyssomanes leucomelas'' Mello-Leitão, 1917 – Mexico, Brazil, Argentina *''Lyssomanes limpidus'' Galiano, 1980 – Colombia *''Lyssomanes longipes'' (Taczanowski, 1871) – Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana *''Lyssomanes maddisoni'' Logunov, 2014 – Mexico *''Lyssomanes malinche'' Galiano, 1980 – Mexico *''Lyssomanes manausensis'' Logunov, 2014 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes mandibulatus'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Mexico to Panama *''Lyssomanes matoensis'' Logunov, 2014 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes mexicanus'' Logunov, 2014 – Mexico *''Lyssomanes michae'' Brignoli, 1984 – West Indies *''Lyssomanes miniaceus'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil, Argentina *''Lyssomanes minor'' Schenkel, 1953 – Venezuela *''Lyssomanes nigrofimbriatus'' Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Brazil, Argentina *''Lyssomanes nigropictus'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador *''Lyssomanes onkonensis'' Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Ecuador *''Lyssomanes parallelus'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes paravelox'' Logunov, 2002 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes parki'' Chickering, 1946 – Panama *''Lyssomanes patens'' Peckham & Peckham, 1896 – Honduras to Panama *''Lyssomanes pauper'' Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Brazil, Argentina *''Lyssomanes penicillatus'' Mello-Leitão, 1927 – Brazil, Argentina *''Lyssomanes perafani'' Galvis, 2017 – Colombia *''Lyssomanes peruensis'' Logunov, 2000 – Peru *''Lyssomanes pescadero'' Jiménez & Tejas, 1993 – Mexico *''Lyssomanes pichilingue'' Galiano, 1984 – Ecuador *''Lyssomanes placidus'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Mexico *''Lyssomanes portoricensis'' Petrunkevitch, 1930 – Puerto Rico to Martinique *†''Lyssomanes pristinus'' Wunderlich, 1986 – Dominican Republic *''Lyssomanes protarsalis'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Guatemala *†''Lyssomanes pulcher'' Wunderlich, 1988 – Dominican Republic *''Lyssomanes quadrinotatus'' Simon, 1900 – Venezuela *''Lyssomanes reductus'' Peckham & Peckham, 1896 – Mexico to Panama *''Lyssomanes remotus'' Peckham & Peckham, 1896 – Panama to Brazil *''Lyssomanes robustus'' (Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru, Brazil *''Lyssomanes romani'' Logunov, 2000 – Brazil, Ecuador *''Lyssomanes rudis'' Logunov, 2015 – French Guiana *''Lyssomanes santarem'' Galiano, 1984 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes silvestris'' Logunov, 2014 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes similis'' Logunov, 2014 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes spiralis'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Mexico to Nicaragua *''Lyssomanes sylvicola'' Galiano, 1980 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes taczanowskii'' Galiano, 1980 – Trinidad to Peru, Ecuador *''Lyssomanes tapirapensis'' Galiano, 1996 – Venezuela, French Guiana, Brazil *''Lyssomanes tapuiramae'' Galiano, 1980 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes tarmae'' Galiano, 1980 – Peru *''Lyssomanes temperatus'' Galiano, 1980 – Mexico *''Lyssomanes tenuis'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Guyana *''Lyssomanes trinidadus'' Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Trinidad *''Lyssomanes tristis'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil, Argentina *''Lyssomanes unicolor'' (Taczanowski, 1871) – Mexico to Peru, Ecuador, Brazil *''Lyssomanes velox'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil, Ecuador *''Lyssomanes vinocurae'' Galiano, 1996 – Brazil *''Lyssomanes viridis'' (Walckenaer, 1837) (type species) – USA *''Lyssomanes waorani'' Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Ecuador *''Lyssomanes wiwa'' Galvis, 2017 – Colombia *''Lyssomanes yacui'' Galiano, 1984 – Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil {{Div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=WSC_g2749>{{citation |title=Gen. ''Lyssomanes'' Hentz, 1845 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2749 |access-date=2025-08-18 }}</ref> <ref name="Wunderlich237">{{cite book |last1=Wunderlich |first1=Jörg |title=Die fossilen Spinnen im Dominikanischen Bernstein |date=1988 |publisher=Verlag Jörg Wunderlich |location=Straubenhardt |isbn=3931473023 |pages=237–238 |url=https://joergwunderlich.de/Downloads/Beitr._Araneol._Band_2_(1988).pdf}}</ref> }}

==External links== {{Commons category}}

===Videos=== * David Edwin Hill: Courtship and mating of the jumping spider ''Lyssomanes viridis'' (Araneae: Salticidae) — [https://archive.org/details/CourtshipMatingLyssomanesViridisMPEG4V3 Video] * David Edwin Hill: Feeding ''Lyssomanes viridis'' (Araneae: Salticidae) — [https://archive.org/details/FeedingLyssomanesviridis Video]

===Pictures=== * [https://www.jumping-spiders.com/php/quickimage.php?gen=Lyssomanes Image catalogue for ''Lyssomanes''] at Jumping Spiders of the World * [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/lyssoman/lyssoman.htm Photographs of ''Lyssomanes'' species from Brazil] * [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/lyssoman/lysso-ol.htm Paintings of ''Lyssomanes sp.''] * [http://www.americanarachnology.org/HiResGallery/dionyc_Lyssomanes_sp.html Picture of ''Lyssomanes sp.''] * [https://leapingspiders.com/560#/Lyssomanes_jumping High-Speed Photo of ''Lyssomanes sp.'' leaping.]

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