''Hypsacantha'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

n orb-weaver spiders containing the single species, ''Hypsacantha crucimaculata''. It was first described by

Friedrich Dahl Karl Friedrich Theodor Dahl (June 24, 1856 in Rosenhofer Brök north of Dahme, Holstein – June 29, 1929 in Greifswald) was a German zoologist, and in particular an arachnologist. The son of a farmer, Dahl studied at the universities of Le ...

in 1914, and has only been found in Africa.

References

Araneidae Monotypic Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Africa Taxa named by Friedrich Dahl {{Araneidae-stub