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Hypomma

Hypomma is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by David B. Hirst in 1886.

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Hypomma
Hypomma cornutum (Bl.) figure 18, Hypomma bituberculatum (Wider) figure 182
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Hypomma
Dahl, 18861
Type species
H. bituberculatum
(Wider, 1834)
Species

10, see text

Synonyms1
  • Enidia Smith, 19082

Hypomma is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by David B. Hirst in 1886.3

Species

As of May 2019 it contains ten species, found in China, Equatorial Guinea, Japan, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Russia, Turkey, and the United States:1

  • Hypomma affine Schenkel, 1930 – Russia (north-eastern Siberia, Far East), Japan
  • Hypomma bituberculatum (Wider, 1834) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China
  • Hypomma brevitibiale (Wunderlich, 1980) – Macedonia
  • Hypomma clypeatum Roewer, 1942 – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
  • Hypomma coalescera (Kritscher, 1966) – New Caledonia
  • Hypomma cornutum (Blackwall, 1833) – Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
  • Hypomma fulvum (Bösenberg, 1902) – Europe
  • Hypomma marxi (Keyserling, 1886) – USA
  • Hypomma nordlandicum Chamberlin & Ivie, 1947 – USA (Alaska)
  • Hypomma subarcticum Chamberlin & Ivie, 1947 – USA (Alaska)
References

References

  1. "Gen. Hypomma Dahl, 1886". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  2. Denis, J. (1968). "An obscure problem of nomenclature: Hypomma or Enidia?". Bulletin of the British Spider Study Group. 37: 7.
  3. Dahl, F. (1886). "Monographie der Erigone-Arten im Thorell' schen. Sinne, nebst anderen Beiträgen zur Spinnenfauna SchleswigHolsteins". Schriften des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Schleswig-Holstein. 6: 65–102.