Lyssomaninae, Blackwall, 1877

Hill, David Edwin, 2023, The jumping spiders of Pete Carmichael (Araneae: Salticidae), Peckhamia 292 (1), pp. 1-52 : 4-5

Lyssomaninae (Figures 2.1-3.6)

This is a large neotropical clade with many described species, including 94 Lyssomanes , 4 Chinoscopus , 2 Sumakuru , and 2 Hindumanes (WSC 2023) . Only one species, L. viridis (Figure 3.1-3.2), can be found as far north as the southeastern United States. Many species of Lyssomanes have been described, and new species are frequently added to this genus. Unfortunately many are known only for one sex, and for most identification from photographs is not possible at this time. The two species of Hindumanes , known only from India, are very similar to Lyssomanes (Sudhin et al. 2017; Rele & John 2022). Recently Maddison (2016) added the aberrant genus Sumakuru to this group. L. longipes (Figures 3.5-3.6), originally described from Guyana (Taczanowski 1871), was recently redescribed from Amazonas state, Brazil (Carvalho & Gasnier 2019).

2.3 ♀ Lyssomanes , Central America 2.4 ♀ Lyssomanes guarding nest, South America

3.1 ♁ Lyssomanes viridis (Walckenaer 1837) , Southeastern US 3.2 ♀ Lyssomanes viridis , Southeastern US

3.3-3.4 ♁ Lyssomanes , Ecuador

3.5-3.6 ♀ Lyssomanes longipes (Taczanowski 1871) , Ecuador