Hyllus is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Most species occur in Africa and Madagascar, with many in Australasia and north to India.

Description Hyllus are medium to large spiders, commonly mistaken for those in the genus Evarcha. They are usually stout, hairy and dully colored, with horns at the top of the median eyes formed by long bristles. They have a rounded carapace, which is larger than the eye field. Spiders in the genus Evarcha are usually smaller and their carapace is thinner.

Name Hyllus was the son of Heracles and Deianira in Greek mythology.

Species

, this genus includes 74 species and two subspecies:

Hyllus acutus (Blackwall, 1877) – Comoros, Seychelles Hyllus aegyptiacus (Denis, 1947) – Egypt Hyllus africanus Lessert, 1927 – Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, DR Congo, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique Hyllus albofasciatus Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon Hyllus albomarginatus (Lenz, 1886) – Madagascar Hyllus albooculatus (Vinson, 1863) – Madagascar Hyllus alboplagiatus Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon Hyllus angustivulvus Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia Hyllus argyrotoxus Simon, 1902 – Ivory Coast, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini Hyllus atroniveus Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia Hyllus aubryi (Lucas, 1858) – Gabon Hyllus bifasciatus Ono, 1993 – Madagascar Hyllus bisulcus Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Tanzania, Mozambique Hyllus bos (Sundevall, 1833) – India Hyllus brevitarsis Simon, 1902 – Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Tanzania, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa Hyllus congoensis Lessert, 1927 – Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, DR Congo, Uganda, Mozambique Hyllus cornutus (Blackwall, 1866) – Senegal, south-east equatorial Africa Hyllus decellei Wanless & Clark, 1975 – Ivory Coast Hyllus decoratus Thorell, 1887 – Myanmar Hyllus deyrollei (Lucas, 1858) – Gabon, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Mozambique Hyllus diardi (Walckenaer, 1837) – China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia H. d. borneensis (Thorell, 1892) – Borneo (no details) Hyllus dotatus (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903) – Sudan, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Ethiopia, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Yemen Hyllus duplicidentatus Caporiacco, 1941 – Ethiopia Hyllus flavescens Simon, 1902 – South Africa Hyllus formosus Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda Hyllus ghanensis Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025 – Ghana Hyllus giganteus C. L. Koch, 1846 – Indonesia, (Sumatra) (type species) H. g. whitei Thorell, 1877 – Indonesia (Sulawesi) Hyllus grandis (Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011) – Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria Hyllus gulosus (Simon, 1877) – Philippines Hyllus holochalceus Simon, 1909 – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko) Hyllus interrogationis (Strand, 1907) – Madagascar Hyllus jallae Pavesi, 1897 – Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe Hyllus juanensis Strand, 1907 – Madagascar Hyllus keratodes (van Hasselt, 1882) – Indonesia (Sumatra) Hyllus leucomelas (Lucas, 1858) – Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Gabon, DR Congo, Uganda Hyllus longiusculus (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon Hyllus lwoffi Berland & Millot, 1941 – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mozambique Hyllus madagascariensis (Vinson, 1863) – Madagascar Hyllus minahassae Merian, 1911 – Indonesia (Sulawesi) Hyllus mniszechi (Lucas, 1858) – Gabon Hyllus multiaculeatus Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya Hyllus nebulosus G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1907 – Malaysia (Borneo) Hyllus nigeriensis (Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012) – Nigeria Hyllus nummularis (Gerstaecker, 1873) – Tanzania (Zanzibar) Hyllus ornatus Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Mozambique Hyllus peckhamorum Berland & Millot, 1941 – Ivory Coast, Ghana Hyllus plexippoides Simon, 1906 – Guinea to Sudan, DR Congo, Kenya, Zambia Hyllus pudicus Thorell, 1895 – India, Myanmar Hyllus pulcherrimus G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1907 – Malaysia (Borneo) Hyllus qishuoi Xiong, Liu & Zhang, 2017 – China Hyllus ramadanii Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Kenya, Tanzania Hyllus remotus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011 – Nigeria Hyllus robinsoni Hogg, 1919 – Indonesia (Sumatra) Hyllus rotundithorax Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania Hyllus sansibaricus Roewer, 1951 – Tanzania (Zanzibar) Hyllus semicupreus (Simon, 1885) – India, Sri Lanka, Nepal Hyllus senegalensis (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Senegal Hyllus shanhonghani Lin & Li, 2022 – China Hyllus simplex Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Mozambique Hyllus solus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast Hyllus stigmatias (L. Koch, 1875) – Ethiopia Hyllus suillus Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon Hyllus taysonensis Hoang, 2025 – Vietnam Hyllus tetensis Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Mozambique Hyllus thoracicus (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon Hyllus tirapensis (B. Biswas & K. Biswas, 2006) – India Hyllus treleaveni G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1902 – Guinea, Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa Hyllus tuberculatus Wanless & Clark, 1975 – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Uganda Hyllus unicolor Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Guinea, Ivory Coast Hyllus viduatus Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia Hyllus vietnamensis Hoang, 2025 – Vietnam Hyllus vinsoni (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885) – Madagascar Hyllus walckenaeri (White, 1846) – Indonesia (Sulawesi) Hyllus zabkai Hoang, 2025 – Vietnam

References

Further reading Logunov, D.V. (2001): New and poorly known species of the jumping spiders (Aranei: Salticidae) from Afghanistan, Iran and Crete. Arthropoda Selecta 10: 59–66. Caleb, J. T. D., Christudhas, A., Laltanpuii, K. & Chitra, M (2014): A new species of Hyllus from India Metzner, H. (1999): Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1–279.

External links

Pictures of Hyllus diardi Frontal view of H. diardi