''Hypsosinga'' is a
genus
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of
orb-weaver spiders first described by
Anton Ausserer
Anton Ausserer (5 July 184320 July 1889)Maurer, Ferdinand: ''Nachruf an Dr. Anton Ausserer.'' Programm des kk. acad. Gymnasiums in Grätz. Graz 1890 was an Austrian natural history, naturalist specialising in spiders.Bonnet, Pierre: Bibliographi ...
in 1871.
The genus name is derived from the Greek "hypso", meaning "high", referring to the higher clypeus than those of the genus ''
Singa''.
In 2015, female ''
Hypsosinga heri'' spiders were identified at the
RSPB
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Radipole Lake
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nature reserve in
Dorset
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, England. The previous recorded sightings of the species in the
UK were in 1898 and 1912 at
Wicken Fen
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,
Cambridgeshire
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.
Species
it contains twenty-one species:
*''
Hypsosinga alberta''
Levi
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, 1972 – Russia (East Siberia), Canada
*''
Hypsosinga alboria''
Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China
*''
Hypsosinga albovittata''
( Westring, 1851) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Middle East, Central Asia
*''
Hypsosinga clax''
Oliger, 1993 – Russia (Far East)
*''
Hypsosinga funebris''
(Keyserling Keyserling is the surname of several members of the noble House of Keyserlingk:
* Alexander Keyserling (1815–1891), Russian geologist, paleontologist, botanist and zoologist
* Eugen von Keyserling (1833–1889), German arachnologist
* Hermann Gr ...
, 1892) – USA, Canada
*''
Hypsosinga groenlandica''
Simon
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* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...
, 1889 – USA, Canada, Greenland
*''
Hypsosinga heri''
(Hahn
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Places
*Hahn (crater), on the Moon
*Hahn (Holzhausen), a hill in Hesse, Germany
*Hahn, Rhineland-Palatinate, a municipality in Germany
**Hahn Air Base, a former frontline NATO facility near Hahn
**Frankfurt–Hahn Airport
* Ha ...
, 1831) – Europe, Caucasus, Israel, Russia (Europe to Central Asia, West Siberia), Central Asia, China
*''
Hypsosinga kazachstanica''
Ponomarev, 2007 – Kazakhstan
*''
Hypsosinga lithyphantoides''
Caporiacco, 1947 – Uganda, Kenya
**''
Hypsosinga l. dealbata''
Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
*''
Hypsosinga luzhongxiani''
Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013 – China
*''
Hypsosinga pygmaea''
(Sundevall
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Sundevall studied at Lund University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1823. After traveling to East Asia, he studied medicine, graduating as a Doctor ...
, 1831) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan
**''
Hypsosinga p. nigra''
(Simon, 1909) – Vietnam
**''
Hypsosinga p. nigriceps''
( Kulczyński, 1903) – Turkey
*''
Hypsosinga rubens''
( Hentz, 1847) – USA, Canada
*''
Hypsosinga sanguinea''
(C. L. Koch, 1844) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan
*''
Hypsosinga satpuraensis''
Bodkhe, Uniyal & Kamble, 2016 – India
*''
Hypsosinga taprobanica''
(Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka
*''
Hypsosinga turkmenica''
Bakhvalov, 1978 – Turkmenistan
*''
Hypsosinga vaulogeri''
(Simon, 1909) – Vietnam
*''
Hypsosinga wanica''
Song, Qian & Gao, 1996 – China
References
External links
Hypsosinga' at
BugGuide
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Araneidae
Araneomorphae genera
Cosmopolitan spiders
Taxa named by Anton Ausserer
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