Lyssomaninae is a subfamily of jumping spiders. It includes four genera, three from the New World.[1][2]

Lyssomaninae
female Lyssomanes viridis (scale = 1 mm)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Lyssomaninae
Blackwall, 1877
Genera

See text.

Description edit

Members of the subfamily Lyssomaninae are mostly green or yellow, and have long legs compared to other salticids. The anterior lateral eyes form a second row behind the anterior median eyes. The male palpal bulb has a membraneous conductor.[1][3]

Taxonomy edit

The subfamily Lyssomaninae, as described in 1976 by María Elena Galiano and in 1980 by Wanless, was agreed by both authors not to be monophyletic, and to consist of three groups.[4] It was formally divided into three subfamilies, Onomastinae, Asemoneinae and Lyssomaninae s.s., by Wayne Maddison in 2015. He included only two genera, Chinoscopus and Lyssomanes, although noting that Lyssomanes might be paraphyletic. Molecular data strongly supported the monophyly of the group defined in this way.[1] In 2016, Maddison described a new genus, Sumakuru, which he placed in Lyssomaninae.[5] Maddison originally kept the genus Hindumanes in the subfamily Asemoneinae, where it had been placed previously; it had not been included in molecular phylogenetic studies.[1] In 2017, Hindumanes, whose type species was originally placed in Lyssomanes, was moved to Lyssomaninae, on the basis of the similarity of the male palpal bulb.[3]

Genera edit

As of August 2020, four genera have been placed in the subfamily Lyssomaninae:[1][5][3]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. S2CID 85680279.
  2. ^ Galvis, William (26 June 2020). "The first described female of the South American jumping spider genus Sumakuru Maddison, 2016 (Araneae: Salticidae: Lyssomaninae)" (PDF). Peckhamia. 209 (1): 1–4.
  3. ^ a b c Sudhin, P.P.; Nafin, K.S. & Sudhikumar, A.V. (2017). "Revision of Hindumanes Logunov, 2004 (Araneae: Salticidae: Lyssomaninae), with description of a new species from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India". Zootaxa. 4350 (2): 317–330. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4350.2.7. PMID 29245556.
  4. ^ Galiano, María Elena (1984), "New species of Lyssomanes Hentz, 1845 (Araneae, Salticidae)" (PDF), Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 6 (6): 268–276, retrieved 2020-08-20
  5. ^ a b Maddison, W.P. (2016). "Sumakuru, a deeply-diverging new genus of lyssomanine jumping spiders from Ecuador (Araneae: Salticidae)". ZooKeys (614): 87–96. doi:10.3897/zookeys.614.9368. PMC 5027657. PMID 27667933.