Hypsosinga
| Hypsosinga | |
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| Hypsosinga albovittata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Hypsosinga Ausserer, 1871[1] |
Hypsosinga is an orb-weaver spider genus (family Araneidae).
In 2015, female Hypsosinga heri spiders were identified at the RSPB Radipole Lake nature reserve in Dorset, England. The previous recorded sightings of the species in the UK were in 1898 and 1912 at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire.[2]
Species
As of April 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]
- Hypsosinga alboria Yin et al., 1990 – China
- Hypsosinga albovittata (Westring, 1851) – Palearctic
- Hypsosinga clax Oliger, 1993 – Russia
- Hypsosinga funebris (Keyserling, 1892) – USA, Canada
- Hypsosinga groenlandica Simon, 1889 – USA, Canada, Greenland
- Hypsosinga heri (Hahn, 1831) – Palearctic
- Hypsosinga kazachstanica Ponomarev, 2007 – Kazakhstan
- Hypsosinga lithyphantoides Caporiacco, 1947 – Uganda, Kenya
- Hypsosinga pygmaea (Sundevall, 1831) – Holarctic
- Hypsosinga rubens (Hentz, 1847) – USA, Canada
- Hypsosinga sanguinea (C. L. Koch, 1844) (type species) – Palearctic
- Hypsosinga taprobanica (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka
- Hypsosinga turkmenica Bakhvalov, 1978 – Turkmenistan
- Hypsosinga vaulogeri (Simon, 1909) – Vietnam
- Hypsosinga wanica Song, Qian & Gao, 1996 – China
See also
References
- 1 2 "Gen. Hypsosinga Ausserer, 1871". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
- ↑ "'Extinct' Hypsosinga heri spider found in Dorset reserve". BBC News Online. 2015-06-15. Retrieved 2015-06-15.
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