Hyllus Salticids

Hyllus salticids are a salticid species. They developed from the modern Hyllus genus of jumping spiders during the Anthropocene and the Second Carboniferous.

Origin
Modern Hyllus spiders cover a wide range throughout Africa and Asia. However, Hyllus salticids evolved from a single-species population of Hyllus diardi somewhere in northeastern India. Until the Burning of Hyllus, their current range included most of the southwestern peninsula of southern Pangea Proxima 1, but is now restricted to the very tip.

Description
Female Hyllus salticids are prominently light yellow, white, and light brown, with variable seta coloration over their entire body. They often possess "eyelash"-like black setae around the top ridge of their cephalothorax, as well as black coloration around the eyes. Males often look very different, being fully black in color and significantly smaller than females, but some males possess vibrant color patterns.

Abilities
Hyllus salticids are the largest known, growing up to three feet in body length. Their higher weight gives them more physical power, but they are not quick.

Society
They were represented in the Terran Mingle and, along with Portian, Helpis, and Mopsus salticids, cooperatively developed the Proto-Terran Religion. Around 380 PT, the Hyllus broke off from the Mingle and went to war with both the new state of Helpis and the emerging Solenopsid culture. Pressure from both pushed them west toward Portia, which signed a peace treaty permitting the exhausted Hyllus to inhabit the lands to the south - most of which were dry forests and not ideal for salticid habitation. The Hyllus constructed huge wooden aqueducts, along with heavy filtration systems which purged most of the salt from sea water, in order to terraform the forests into a more hospitable environment, forming Old Kingdom Hyllus.

Eventually, the Royal Portian Canopy would retract their treaty, claiming that during this incident the Hyllus had stolen the first Document. The Kingdom claimed to have had the Document all along. This disagreement, and Portia's general aggression, led to the Portia-Hyllus War from 500-508 PT, culminating in the Burning of Hyllus and the near-wholesale destruction of the Kingdom.