# Lyssomanes
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{{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](/source/Nicholas_Marcellus_Hentz), 1845[
| diversity = 93 species
| diversity_link = #Species
| type_species = ''[Attus viridis](/source/Lyssomanes_viridis)''
| type_species_authority = Walckenaer, 1837][
| subdivision = See text.
| subdivision_ranks = Species
}}
'''''Lyssomanes''''' is a [spider](/source/spider) [genus](/source/genus_(biology)) of the family Salticidae ([jumping spiders](/source/Salticidae)), ranging from [South](/source/South_America) and [Central America](/source/Central_America), up to the southern United States.][{{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 }}]
They are long-legged, with translucent bodies frequently green or yellow. They resemble [lynx spider](/source/lynx_spider)s, except that they have large anterior median eyes.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}
==Habitat==
''Lyssomanes'' are typically found in [foliage](/source/foliage) in [mesic habitat](/source/mesic_habitat)s.{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}}
thumb|female ''L. viridis'' from Florida
==Species==
{{As of|2025|08|df=}}, the [World Spider Catalog](/source/World_Spider_Catalog) accepted the following species:[
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*''[Lyssomanes adisi](/source/Lyssomanes_adisi)'' Logunov, 2002 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes amazonicus](/source/Lyssomanes_amazonicus)'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana
*''[Lyssomanes anchicaya](/source/Lyssomanes_anchicaya)'' Galiano, 1984 – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
*''[Lyssomanes antillanus](/source/Lyssomanes_antillanus)'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Saba
*''[Lyssomanes austerus](/source/Lyssomanes_austerus)'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil, Argentina
*''[Lyssomanes aya](/source/Lyssomanes_aya)'' Logunov, 2015 – French Guiana
*''[Lyssomanes belgranoi](/source/Lyssomanes_belgranoi)'' Galiano, 1984 – Argentina
*''[Lyssomanes benderi](/source/Lyssomanes_benderi)'' Logunov, 2002 – Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana
*''[Lyssomanes bitaeniatus](/source/Lyssomanes_bitaeniatus)'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – El Salvador to Venezuela
*''[Lyssomanes blandus](/source/Lyssomanes_blandus)'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Guatemala
*''[Lyssomanes boraceia](/source/Lyssomanes_boraceia)'' Galiano, 1984 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes bryantae](/source/Lyssomanes_bryantae)'' Chickering, 1946 – Panama
*''[Lyssomanes burrera](/source/Lyssomanes_burrera)'' Jiménez & Tejas, 1993 – Mexico
*''[Lyssomanes camacanensis](/source/Lyssomanes_camacanensis)'' Galiano, 1980 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes ceplaci](/source/Lyssomanes_ceplaci)'' Galiano, 1980 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes consimilis](/source/Lyssomanes_consimilis)'' Banks, 1929 – Panama
*''[Lyssomanes convexus](/source/Lyssomanes_convexus)'' Banks, 1909 – Costa Rica
*''[Lyssomanes courtiali](/source/Lyssomanes_courtiali)'' Logunov, 2015 – French Guiana
*''[Lyssomanes deinognathus](/source/Lyssomanes_deinognathus)'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Mexico to Honduras
*''[Lyssomanes devotoi](/source/Lyssomanes_devotoi)'' Mello-Leitão, 1917 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes dissimilis](/source/Lyssomanes_dissimilis)'' Banks, 1929 – Panama
*''[Lyssomanes diversus](/source/Lyssomanes_diversus)'' Galiano, 1980 – Mexico
*''[Lyssomanes eatoni](/source/Lyssomanes_eatoni)'' Chickering, 1946 – Panama
*''[Lyssomanes ecuadoricus](/source/Lyssomanes_ecuadoricus)'' Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Ecuador
*''[Lyssomanes elegans](/source/Lyssomanes_elegans)'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Mexico to Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes elongatus](/source/Lyssomanes_elongatus)'' Galiano, 1980 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes euriensis](/source/Lyssomanes_euriensis)'' Logunov, 2000 – Peru
*''[Lyssomanes flagellum](/source/Lyssomanes_flagellum)'' Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador
*''[Lyssomanes florenciae](/source/Lyssomanes_florenciae)'' Bedoya-Róqueme, 2022 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes fossor](/source/Lyssomanes_fossor)'' Galiano, 1996 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes franckei](/source/Lyssomanes_franckei)'' Galvis, 2020 – Mexico
*''[Lyssomanes hieroglyphicus](/source/Lyssomanes_hieroglyphicus)'' Mello-Leitão, 1944 – Argentina
*''[Lyssomanes ipanemae](/source/Lyssomanes_ipanemae)'' Galiano, 1980 – Brazil, French Guiana
*''[Lyssomanes janauari](/source/Lyssomanes_janauari)'' Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes jemineus](/source/Lyssomanes_jemineus)'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Mexico to Guyana
*''[Lyssomanes jucari](/source/Lyssomanes_jucari)'' Galiano, 1984 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes lampeli](/source/Lyssomanes_lampeli)'' Logunov, 2014 – Guyana
*''[Lyssomanes lancetillae](/source/Lyssomanes_lancetillae)'' Galiano, 1980 – Honduras, Nicaragua
*''[Lyssomanes lehtineni](/source/Lyssomanes_lehtineni)'' Logunov, 2000 – Peru
*''[Lyssomanes leucomelas](/source/Lyssomanes_leucomelas)'' Mello-Leitão, 1917 – Mexico, Brazil, Argentina
*''[Lyssomanes limpidus](/source/Lyssomanes_limpidus)'' Galiano, 1980 – Colombia
*''[Lyssomanes longipes](/source/Lyssomanes_longipes)'' (Taczanowski, 1871) – Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana
*''[Lyssomanes maddisoni](/source/Lyssomanes_maddisoni)'' Logunov, 2014 – Mexico
*''[Lyssomanes malinche](/source/Lyssomanes_malinche)'' Galiano, 1980 – Mexico
*''[Lyssomanes manausensis](/source/Lyssomanes_manausensis)'' Logunov, 2014 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes mandibulatus](/source/Lyssomanes_mandibulatus)'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Mexico to Panama
*''[Lyssomanes matoensis](/source/Lyssomanes_matoensis)'' Logunov, 2014 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes mexicanus](/source/Lyssomanes_mexicanus)'' Logunov, 2014 – Mexico
*''[Lyssomanes michae](/source/Lyssomanes_michae)'' Brignoli, 1984 – West Indies
*''[Lyssomanes miniaceus](/source/Lyssomanes_miniaceus)'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil, Argentina
*''[Lyssomanes minor](/source/Lyssomanes_minor)'' Schenkel, 1953 – Venezuela
*''[Lyssomanes nigrofimbriatus](/source/Lyssomanes_nigrofimbriatus)'' Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Brazil, Argentina
*''[Lyssomanes nigropictus](/source/Lyssomanes_nigropictus)'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador
*''[Lyssomanes onkonensis](/source/Lyssomanes_onkonensis)'' Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Ecuador
*''[Lyssomanes parallelus](/source/Lyssomanes_parallelus)'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes paravelox](/source/Lyssomanes_paravelox)'' Logunov, 2002 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes parki](/source/Lyssomanes_parki)'' Chickering, 1946 – Panama
*''[Lyssomanes patens](/source/Lyssomanes_patens)'' Peckham & Peckham, 1896 – Honduras to Panama
*''[Lyssomanes pauper](/source/Lyssomanes_pauper)'' Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Brazil, Argentina
*''[Lyssomanes penicillatus](/source/Lyssomanes_penicillatus)'' Mello-Leitão, 1927 – Brazil, Argentina
*''[Lyssomanes perafani](/source/Lyssomanes_perafani)'' Galvis, 2017 – Colombia
*''[Lyssomanes peruensis](/source/Lyssomanes_peruensis)'' Logunov, 2000 – Peru
*''[Lyssomanes pescadero](/source/Lyssomanes_pescadero)'' Jiménez & Tejas, 1993 – Mexico
*''[Lyssomanes pichilingue](/source/Lyssomanes_pichilingue)'' Galiano, 1984 – Ecuador
*''[Lyssomanes placidus](/source/Lyssomanes_placidus)'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Mexico
*''[Lyssomanes portoricensis](/source/Lyssomanes_portoricensis)'' Petrunkevitch, 1930 – Puerto Rico to Martinique
*†''[Lyssomanes pristinus](/source/Lyssomanes_pristinus)'' Wunderlich, 1986 – Dominican Republic
*''[Lyssomanes protarsalis](/source/Lyssomanes_protarsalis)'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Guatemala
*†''[Lyssomanes pulcher](/source/Lyssomanes_pulcher)'' Wunderlich, 1988 – Dominican Republic
*''[Lyssomanes quadrinotatus](/source/Lyssomanes_quadrinotatus)'' Simon, 1900 – Venezuela
*''[Lyssomanes reductus](/source/Lyssomanes_reductus)'' Peckham & Peckham, 1896 – Mexico to Panama
*''[Lyssomanes remotus](/source/Lyssomanes_remotus)'' Peckham & Peckham, 1896 – Panama to Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes robustus](/source/Lyssomanes_robustus)'' (Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru, Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes romani](/source/Lyssomanes_romani)'' Logunov, 2000 – Brazil, Ecuador
*''[Lyssomanes rudis](/source/Lyssomanes_rudis)'' Logunov, 2015 – French Guiana
*''[Lyssomanes santarem](/source/Lyssomanes_santarem)'' Galiano, 1984 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes silvestris](/source/Lyssomanes_silvestris)'' Logunov, 2014 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes similis](/source/Lyssomanes_similis)'' Logunov, 2014 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes spiralis](/source/Lyssomanes_spiralis)'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Mexico to Nicaragua
*''[Lyssomanes sylvicola](/source/Lyssomanes_sylvicola)'' Galiano, 1980 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes taczanowskii](/source/Lyssomanes_taczanowskii)'' Galiano, 1980 – Trinidad to Peru, Ecuador
*''[Lyssomanes tapirapensis](/source/Lyssomanes_tapirapensis)'' Galiano, 1996 – Venezuela, French Guiana, Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes tapuiramae](/source/Lyssomanes_tapuiramae)'' Galiano, 1980 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes tarmae](/source/Lyssomanes_tarmae)'' Galiano, 1980 – Peru
*''[Lyssomanes temperatus](/source/Lyssomanes_temperatus)'' Galiano, 1980 – Mexico
*''[Lyssomanes tenuis](/source/Lyssomanes_tenuis)'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Guyana
*''[Lyssomanes trinidadus](/source/Lyssomanes_trinidadus)'' Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Trinidad
*''[Lyssomanes tristis](/source/Lyssomanes_tristis)'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil, Argentina
*''[Lyssomanes unicolor](/source/Lyssomanes_unicolor)'' (Taczanowski, 1871) – Mexico to Peru, Ecuador, Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes velox](/source/Lyssomanes_velox)'' Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Brazil, Ecuador
*''[Lyssomanes vinocurae](/source/Lyssomanes_vinocurae)'' Galiano, 1996 – Brazil
*''[Lyssomanes viridis](/source/Lyssomanes_viridis)'' (Walckenaer, 1837) ([type species](/source/type_species)) – USA
*''[Lyssomanes waorani](/source/Lyssomanes_waorani)'' Logunov & Marusik, 2003 – Ecuador
*''[Lyssomanes wiwa](/source/Lyssomanes_wiwa)'' Galvis, 2017 – Colombia
*''[Lyssomanes yacui](/source/Lyssomanes_yacui)'' Galiano, 1984 – Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil
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==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
][{{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 }}]
[{{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}}]
}}
==External links==
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===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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Category:Spiders of South America
Category:Taxa named by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz
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