''Hongkongia'' is a
genus
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of
Asia
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n
ground spiders that was first described by D. X. Song & Ming-Sheng Zhu in 1998.
Species
it contains seven species:
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Hongkongia caeca''
Deeleman-Reinhold
Christa Laetitia Deeleman-Reinhold (23 November 1930 – 26 March 2025) was a Dutch arachnologist. She specialized in spiders from Southeast Asia and Southern Europe, particularly cave-dwelling and tropical spiders. She donated a collection of ...
, 2001 – Indonesia (Moluccas)
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Hongkongia incincta''
(Simon, 1907) – Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau
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Hongkongia liutang''
Lin & Li, 2023 – China
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Hongkongia novia''
Sankaran & Tripathi, 2023 – India
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Hongkongia reptrix''
Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Japan, Indonesia (Java, Borneo, Bali)
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Hongkongia songi''
Zhang, Zhu & Tso, 2009 – Taiwan
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Hongkongia wuae''
Song & Zhu, 1998 (
type
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) – China, Indonesia (Sulawesi)
References
Araneomorphae genera
Gnaphosidae
Spiders of Asia
Spiders of Oceania
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