World Spider Catalog

Genus: Hypaeus Simon, 1900 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Hypaeus niger (Mello-Leitão, 1930)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055582

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Described:

Distribution: Guyana, Brazil

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) m (01103; destroyed by the fire 2018) - (Borges & Ruiz, 2026)
Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f (2132) of Maenola lunata - (Borges & Ruiz, 2026)

Taxonomic References

Dasyophrys nigra Mello-Leitão, 1930b: 73, f. 47 (Dm) Original description

Maenola lunata de Mello-Leitão, 1940c: 186, f. 23-24 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034376]

Hypaeus niger Borges & Ruiz, 2026: 9, f. 34-43, 46-47, 117-118, 120, 131-132, 142, 148 (mf, removed from S of Hypaeus frontosus [rejecting Galiano, 1968c: 324], S of Maenola lunata)

References

Borges, J. P. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2026). On species groups in the jumping spider genus Hypaeus Simon, 1900 (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycini), with a revision of the H. porcatus species group. Zootaxa 5814(1): 1-42. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5814.1.1 [[Zoobank: 81EA025D-4CB5-46CE-AA94-B7FB3309B70E]] -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1930b). Aranhas do Cuminá. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 32: 51-75. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1940c). Spiders of the Guiana forest collected by O. W. Richards. Arquivos de Zoologia do Estado de Sao Paulo 2: 175-197. doi: 10.11606/issn.2176-7793.19412175-198 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2026-05-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Borges & Ruiz, 2026
2026-05-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Borges & Ruiz, 2026
2026-05-20	Species updated	Borges & Ruiz, 2026	Old value