Biology:Hibana

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Hibana
Hibana incursa aka ghost spider Los Angeles 2016-04-04 2.jpg
H. incursa
Ghost Spider - Hibana gracilis, Woodbridge, Virginia.jpg
H. gracilis
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Anyphaenidae
Genus: Hibana
Brescovit, 1991[1]
Type species
H. gracilis
(Hentz, 1847)
Species

18, see text

Hibana is a genus of anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Antônio Brescovit in 1991.[2] It is found from the United States to Brazil , including the West Indies. It includes North America's yellow ghost spider, formerly categorized as Aysha velox.[1]

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains eighteen species:[1]

  • Hibana arunda (Platnick, 1974) – USA, Mexico
  • Hibana banksi (Strand, 1906) – USA
  • Hibana bicolor (Banks, 1909) – Costa Rica, Colombia
  • Hibana cambridgei (Bryant, 1931) – USA, Mexico
  • Hibana discolor (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Brazil, Bolivia
  • Hibana flavescens (Schmidt, 1971) – Colombia
  • Hibana fusca (Franganillo, 1926) – Cuba
  • Hibana futilis (Banks, 1898) – USA to Venezuela, Cuba
  • Hibana gracilis (Hentz, 1847) – USA, Canada
  • Hibana incursa (Chamberlin, 1919) – USA to Panama
  • Hibana longipalpa (Bryant, 1931) – El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
  • Hibana melloleitaoi (Caporiacco, 1947) – Mexico to Brazil
  • Hibana similaris (Banks, 1929) – Mexico to Brazil
  • Hibana taboga Brescovit, 1991 – Panama
  • Hibana talmina Brescovit, 1993 – Dominican Rep., Trinidad, northern South America
  • Hibana tenuis (L. Koch, 1866) – Mexico to Venezuela, Caribbean
  • Hibana turquinensis (Bryant, 1940) – Cuba
  • Hibana velox (Becker, 1879) – USA, Mexico, Caribbean

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gen. Hibana Brescovit, 1991". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/222. Retrieved 2019-05-10. 
  2. Brescovit, A. D. (1991). "Hibana, novo gênero de aranhas da família Anyphaenidae (Arachnida, Araneae).". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35: 729–744. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q367024 entry