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Salticidae Hyllus

Hyllus diardi (Walckenaer, 1837)

Heavy Jumper

The female may be recognised by the heavy and hairy body and contrastingly banded or chevroned pattern on the dorsum. The body of male H. diardi has a dark greyish sheen but the iridescent hairs may drop off as the spider ages. The mid-abdomen has a pair of black lateral arches and a few indistinct transverse white bars which are more discernible in younger specimens.

Length♀ 13 mm; ♂ 10–12 mm
Type Locality"Conchinchina", Vietnam
DistributionSingapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, China, India.
HabitatGardens, wasteland, rainforests and mangrove fringes.

Taxonomy

Type Deposits*

  1. Holotype

    Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Plexippus janthinus C. L. Koch, 1846, (1702)

  2. Holotype

    Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Plexippus succinctus C. L. Koch, 1846, (1703)

  3. Holotype

    International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Manila, Philippines; ♀ of Hyllus maskaranus (Caleb, 2023)

  4. Syntype

    Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Plexippus lacertosus C. L. Koch, 1846, (1697, 1698)

  5. Syntype

    Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Plexippus mutillarius C. L. Koch, 1846, (1700–01)

Taxonomic references*

  1. Attus diardi (Original description ♀)

    Walckenaer, 1837 Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier: 460 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095

  2. Plexippus lacertosus (Original description ♂)

    C. L. Koch, 1846 Die Arachniden: 94, f. 1157-1158 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744

  3. Attus succinctus

    Doleschall, 1857 Bijdrage tot de kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel: 431 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.66068

  4. Phidippa diardi

    Simon, 1864 Histoire naturelle des araignées (aranéides): 327 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.47654

  5. Hyllus diardi (Synonym of Plexippus mutillarius)

    Simon, 1886a Arachnides recueillis par M: 139

  6. Hyllus mutillarius

    Thorell, 1892a Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani: 381

  7. Hyllus janthinus (Synonym of Plexippus succinctus)

    Thorell, 1895b Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum: 376 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.17492

  8. Hyllus lacertosus

    Simon, 1899a Contribution à la faune de Sumatra: 111

  9. Hyllus lacertosus (♂)

    Prószyński, 1984a Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae): 63

  10. Hyllus diardi (♀)

    Żabka, 1985 Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam: 229, f. 217-220

  11. Hyllus janthinus (♂)

    Żabka, 1988 Salticidae (Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, III: 458, f. 99-100

  12. Hyllus diardi (♀)

    Peng et al., 1993 Salticids in China (Arachnida: Araneae): 96, f. 310-313

  13. Hyllus maskaranus (Original description ♀)

    Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia: 65, f. 29a-f

  14. Hyllus lacertosus (♂)

    Peng & Kim, 1998 Four species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from China: 411, f. 1D-F

  15. Hyllus diardi (♀)

    Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 514, f. 301E, 326L

  16. Hyllus diardi (♂♀, Synonym of Hyllus janthinus and H. lacertosus)

    Xiong, Liu & Zhang, 2017 Review on the jumping spider genus Hyllus from China (Araneae Salticidae): 23, f. 1A-G doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2017.01.005

  17. Hyllus diardi (♂♀)

    Zhang & Wang, 2017 Chinese spiders illustrated: 587, 7 f.

  18. Hyllus diardi (♀; misidentified per Hoang, 2025: 285)

    Basumatary et al., 2018a New record of Hyllus diardi (Walckenaer 1837) (Araneae: Salticidae) from India: 35, f. 1-5 doi:10.2476/asjaa.67.35

  19. Hyllus lacertosus (♂)

    Peng, 2020 Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: 182, f. 120a-b

  20. Hyllus diardi (♀, Synonym of Hyllus maskaranus and Phidippus tirapensis [revalidated by Hoang, 2025: 285])

    Caleb, 2023 Deciphering mysteries: on the identity of five enigmatic jumping spiders from northeast India, China and Philippines (Araneae, Salticidae): 394, f. 7-12 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5230.3.8

  21. Hyllus diardi (♂♀, Synonym of Hyllus maskaranus confirmed)

    Hoang, 2025a Review of Hyllus C: 282, f. 1A-B, 2A-B, 8A-B, 10A-B doi:10.5852/ejt.2025.981.2831

* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.

Distribution Map for Hyllus diardi (Walckenaer, 1837)

Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, China, India.

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