Lyssomanes
| Lyssomanes Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| male Lyssomanes viridis eating a nematoceran (scale = 1 mm) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Lyssomaninae |
| Genus: | Lyssomanes Hentz, 1845 |
| Type species | |
| Attus viridis Walckenaer, 1837 | |
| Species | |
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See text. | |
| Diversity | |
| 93 species | |
Lyssomanes is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders), ranging from South and Central America, up to the southern United States.
There have been described 94 extant and two fossil species from the Neotropical Region. The genera Lyssomanes, Chinoscopus, Hindumanes, and Sumakuru make up the Lyssomaninae, which is one of the six deeply-diverging subfamilies of jumping spiders.
They are long-legged, with translucent bodies frequently green or yellow. They resemble lynx spiders, except that they have large anterior median eyes.