''Hyllus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of the

spider Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species ...

family

Salticidae Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...

(jumping spiders). Most species occur in

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

and

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

, with many in

Australasia Australasia is a region that comprises Australia, New Zealand and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term is used in a number of different contexts, including geopolitically, physiogeographically, philologically, and ecologi ...

and north to

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. ''H. insularis'' is found in

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and

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, but it is considered misplaced in this genus,Logunov 2001 and is now ''Evarcha insularis''.

Description

They are medium to large spiders, commonly mistaken by those in the genus '' Evarcha''. They are usually stout, hairy and dully colored. They usually have horns at the top of the median eyes formed by long

bristle A bristle is a stiff hair or feather (natural or artificial), either on an animal, such as a pig, a plant, or on a tool such as a brush or broom. Synthetic types Synthetic materials such as nylon are also used to make bristles in items such as ...

s. They have a rounded carapace, which is larger than the eye field. Those in the genus ''Evarcha'' are usually smaller and their carapace is thinner. Jumping spider hunting a grasshopper at Kadavoor

Jumping spider hunting a grasshopper at Kadavoor

Name

Hyllus In Greek mythology, Hyllus (; Ancient Greek: Ὕλλος) or Hyllas (Ὕλᾱς) was son of Heracles and Deianira, husband of Iole, nursed by Abia. Mythology Heracles, whom Zeus had originally intended to be ruler of Argos, Lacedaemon and Mes ...

was the son of

Heracles Heracles ( ; grc-gre, Ἡρακλῆς, , glory/fame of Hera), born Alcaeus (, ''Alkaios'') or Alcides (, ''Alkeidēs''), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon.By his adoptiv ...

and Deianira in Greek mythology.

Species

, the

World Spider Catalog The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of ...

accepted these species: *'' Hyllus acutus'' ( Blackwall, 1877) –

Comoro Islands The Comoro Islands or Comoros (Shikomori ''Komori''; ar, جزر القمر , ''Juzur al-qamar''; french: Les Comores) form an archipelago of volcanic islands situated off the southeastern coast of Africa, to the east of Mozambique and northwes ...

Seychelles Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seychelles; Creole: ''La Repiblik Sesel''), is an archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, ...

*'' Hyllus aegyptiacus'' (Denis, 1947) – Egypt *'' Hyllus africanus'' Lessert, 1927 – Congo basin *'' Hyllus albofasciatus'' Thorell, 1899 –

Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...

*'' Hyllus albomarginatus'' (Lenz, 1886) –

*'' Hyllus albooculatus'' (Vinson, 1863) – Madagascar *'' Hyllus alboplagiatus'' Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon *'' Hyllus angustivulvus'' Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia *'' Hyllus argyrotoxus''

Simon Simon may refer to: People * Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon * Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon * Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...

, 1902 –

West West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...

East East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...

Southern Africa Southern Africa is the southernmost subregion of the African continent, south of the Congo and Tanzania. The physical location is the large part of Africa to the south of the extensive Congo River basin. Southern Africa is home to a number o ...

*'' Hyllus atroniveus'' Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia *'' Hyllus aubryi'' ( Lucas, 1858) –

Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the nort ...

*'' Hyllus bifasciatus'' Ono, 1993 – Madagascar *'' Hyllus bos'' ( Sundevall, 1833) – India *'' Hyllus brevitarsis'' Simon, 1902 – Africa *'' Hyllus congoensis'' Lessert, 1927 – Ivory Coast, Congo *'' Hyllus cornutus'' (Blackwall, 1866) – Africa *'' Hyllus decellei'' Wanless & Clark, 1975 – Ivory Coast *'' Hyllus decoratus'' Thorell, 1887 –

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

*'' Hyllus deyrollei'' (Lucas, 1858) – Gabon, Ivory Coast *''

Hyllus diardi In Greek mythology, Hyllus (; Ancient Greek: Ὕλλος) or Hyllas (Ὕλᾱς) was son of Heracles and Deianira, husband of Iole, nursed by Abia (mythology), Abia. Mythology Heracles, whom Zeus had originally intended to be ruler of Argos, P ...

'' (

Walckenaer Baron Charles Athanase Walckenaer (25 December 1771 – 28 April 1852) was a French civil servant and scientist. Biography Walckenaer was born in Paris and studied at the universities of Oxford and Glasgow. In 1793 he was appointed head of t ...

, 1837) – India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, China to Indonesia (

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's mos ...

) *'' Hyllus dotatus'' ( Peckham & Peckham, 1903) – Sudan to Southern Africa,

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

*'' Hyllus duplicidentatus'' Caporiacco, 1941 – Ethiopia *'' Hyllus flavescens'' Simon, 1902 – South Africa *'' Hyllus giganteus'' C. L. Koch, 1846 – Sumatra to Australia *'' Hyllus gulosus'' (Simon, 1877) –

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

*'' Hyllus holochalceus'' Simon, 1910 –

Bioko Bioko (; historically Fernando Po; bvb, Ëtulá Ëria) is an island off the west coast of Africa and the northernmost part of Equatorial Guinea. Its population was 335,048 at the 2015 census and it covers an area of . The island is located of ...

*'' Hyllus ignotus'' Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast *'' Hyllus interrogationis'' (Strand, 1907) – Madagascar *'' Hyllus jallae'' Pavesi, 1897 – Africa *'' Hyllus juanensis'' Strand, 1907 –

Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...

*'' Hyllus keratodes'' (Hasselt, 1882) – Sumatra *'' Hyllus leucomelas'' (Lucas, 1858) – West, Central Africa *'' Hyllus longiusculus'' (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon *'' Hyllus lugubris'' (Vinson, 1863) – Madagascar *'' Hyllus lwoffi'' Berland & Millot, 1941 – Guinea, Ivory Coast *'' Hyllus madagascariensis'' (Vinson, 1863) – Madagascar *'' Hyllus manu'' John T. D. Caleb, Christudhas A., Laltanpuii, K. & Chitra, M, 2014 –

Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...

*'' Hyllus maskaranus'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines *'' Hyllus minahassae'' Merian, 1911 – Sulawesi *'' Hyllus mniszechi'' (Lucas, 1858) – Gabon *'' Hyllus multiaculeatus'' Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya *'' Hyllus nebulosus'' Peckham & Peckham, 1907 – Borneo *'' Hyllus nigeriensis'' (Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012) – Nigeria *'' Hyllus nummularis'' ( Gerstäcker, 1873) –

Zanzibar Zanzibar (; ; ) is an insular semi-autonomous province which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania. It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of many small islan ...

*'' Hyllus peckhamorum'' Berland & Millot, 1941 – Ivory Coast *'' Hyllus plexippoides'' Simon, 1906 – Ivory Coast to

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...

*'' Hyllus pudicus'' Thorell, 1895 – India, Myanmar *'' Hyllus pulcherrimus'' Peckham & Peckham, 1907 – Borneo *'' Hyllus qishuoi'' Xiong, Liu & Zhang, 2017 – China *'' Hyllus ramadanii'' ( Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000) – Tanzania *'' Hyllus remotus'' Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2011 – Nigeria *'' Hyllus robinsoni'' Hogg, 1919 – Sumatra *'' Hyllus rotundithorax'' Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania *'' Hyllus sansibaricus'' Roewer, 1951 – Zanzibar *'' Hyllus semicupreus'' (Simon, 1885) – India, Sri Lanka *'' Hyllus senegalensis'' (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Senegal *'' Hyllus shanhonghani'' Lin & Li, 2022 – China *'' Hyllus solus'' Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast *'' Hyllus stigmatias'' (

L. Koch Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (8 November 1825 – 1 November 1908) was a German entomologist and arachnologist. He was born in Regensburg, Germany, and died in Nuremberg, Germany. He studied in Nuremberg, initially law, but then turned to medicin ...

, 1875) – Ethiopia *'' Hyllus suillus'' Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon *'' Hyllus thoracicus'' (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon *'' Hyllus treleaveni'' Peckham & Peckham, 1902 – Central, East, Southern Africa *'' Hyllus tuberculatus'' Wanless & Clark, 1975 – Ivory Coast *'' Hyllus unicolor'' Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast *'' Hyllus viduatus'' Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia *'' Hyllus vinsoni'' (Peckham & Peckham, 1885) – Madagascar *'' Hyllus walckenaeri'' (White, 1846) – Borneo, Sulawesi

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Pictures of ''Hyllus diardi''

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