Hyetussa
Genus of jumping spiders
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Hyetussa is a genus of jumping spiders in the family Salticidae. Its species are distributed in the Americas, from the United States and Panama to several countries in South America.[1]
| Hyetussa | |
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| Hyetussa sergipe | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Hyetussa Simon, 1902[1] |
| Type species | |
| Hyetussa simoni | |
| Species | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Taxonomic history
Eugène Simon established Hyetussa in 1902 for a species that he named Hyetussa cribrata. That name was preoccupied by Cerionesta cribrata Simon, 1901, a different species that was later transferred to Hyetussa. María Elena Galiano consequently introduced Hyetussa simoni as a replacement name in 1976; it is treated as the type species of the genus.[1]
A 2017 revision of the jumping-spider tribe Thiodinini placed Bredana and Micalula in synonymy with Hyetussa. Micalula had previously been introduced as a replacement for the preoccupied genus name Mica. The revision transferred Micalula longithorax, Bredana alternata, and Bredana complicata to Hyetussa and described two new Brazilian species, H. sergipe and H. tremembe.[2]
Species
As of August 2026, the World Spider Catalog accepts eleven species in the genus:[1]
- Hyetussa aguilari Galiano, 1978 – Peru, Argentina
- Hyetussa alternata (Gertsch, 1936) – United States
- Hyetussa andalgalaensis Galiano, 1976 – Argentina
- Hyetussa complicata (Gertsch, 1936) – United States
- Hyetussa cribrata (Simon, 1901) – Paraguay, Argentina
- Hyetussa longithorax (Petrunkevitch, 1925) – Panama
- Hyetussa mesopotamica Galiano, 1976 – Argentina
- Hyetussa secta (Mello-Leitão, 1944) – Argentina
- Hyetussa sergipe Bustamante & Ruiz, 2017 – Brazil
- Hyetussa simoni Galiano, 1976 (type species) – Venezuela
- Hyetussa tremembe Bustamante & Ruiz, 2017 – Brazil
