''Hibana'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
anyphaenid sac spiders first described by
Antônio Brescovit
Antônio Domingos Brescovit (born 1959) is a Brazilian arachnologist. His first name, Antônio (the spelling used in Brazil), may also be spelled António (the spelling used in Portugal). He develops academic activities at the 'arthropodae laborat ...
in 1991.
It is found from the
United States
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to
Brazil
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, including the
West Indies
The West Indies is an island subregion of the Americas, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island country, island countries and 19 dependent territory, dependencies in thr ...
. It includes North America's
yellow ghost spider, formerly categorized as ''Aysha velox''.
Species
it contains eighteen species:
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Hibana arunda''
(Platnick, 1974) – USA, Mexico
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Hibana banksi''
(Strand, 1906) – USA
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Hibana bicolor''
(Banks, 1909) – Costa Rica, Colombia
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Hibana cambridgei''
(Bryant, 1931) – USA, Mexico
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Hibana discolor''
(Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Brazil, Bolivia
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Hibana flavescens''
(Schmidt, 1971) – Colombia
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Hibana fusca''
(Franganillo, 1926) – Cuba
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Hibana futilis''
(Banks, 1898) – USA to Venezuela, Cuba
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Hibana gracilis''
(Hentz, 1847) – USA, Canada
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Hibana incursa''
(Chamberlin, 1919) – USA to Panama
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Hibana longipalpa''
(Bryant, 1931) – El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
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Hibana melloleitaoi''
(Caporiacco, 1947) – Mexico to Brazil
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Hibana similaris''
(Banks, 1929) – Mexico to Brazil
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Hibana taboga''
Brescovit, 1991 – Panama
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Hibana talmina''
Brescovit, 1993 – Dominican Rep., Trinidad, northern South America
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Hibana tenuis''
(L. Koch, 1866) – Mexico to Venezuela, Caribbean
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Hibana turquinensis''
(Bryant, 1940) – Cuba
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Hibana velox''
(Becker, 1879) – USA, Mexico, Caribbean
References
External links
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Anyphaenidae genera
Spiders of North America
Spiders of South America
Taxa named by Antônio Brescovit
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