Lyssomaninae
| Lyssomaninae | |
|---|---|
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| female Lyssomanes viridis (scale = 1 mm) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Section: | Dionycha |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Lyssomaninae |
| Type species | |
| Lyssomanes tenuipes O. P-Cambridge, 1869 | |
| Species | |
|
see text | |
| Diversity | |
| 8 genera, > 120 species | |
The Lyssomaninae are a subfamily of jumping spiders, with eight described genera.
The Lyssomaninae are not part of the Salticoida, to which over 90% of all salticid species belong.
Six of these genera occur only in the Old World:
- Asemonea O. P.-Cambridge, 1869 — Africa, Madagascar, Asia, Australia (20 species)
- Goleba Wanless, 1980 — Africa, Madagascar, Seychelles (5 species)
- Macopaeus Simon, 1900 — Madagascar (1 species)
- Onomastus Simon, 1900 — Sri Lanka, India, Vietnam, Borneo, Japan (6 species)
- Pachyonomastus Caporiacco, 1947 — East Africa (1 species)
- Pandisus Simon, 1900 — Madagascar, India (6 species)
The two remaining genera occur only in the New World:
- Chinoscopus Simon, 1901 — South America (4 species)
- Lyssomanes Hentz, 1845 — Florida to South America (80 species)
References
- Maddison, Wayne P. & Needham, Karen M. (2006): Lapsiines and hisponines as phylogenetically basal salticid spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 1255: 37-55.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.