Hibana

Hibana is a genus of anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Antônio Brescovit in 1991.^[2] It is found from the United States to Brazil, including the West Indies. It includes North America's yellow ghost spider, formerly categorized as Aysha velox.^[1]

Species[edit]

As of April 2019^[update] it contains eighteen species:^[1]

Hibana arunda (Platnick, 1974) – USA, Mexico
Hibana banksi (Strand, 1906) – USA
Hibana bicolor (Banks, 1909) – Costa Rica, Colombia
Hibana cambridgei (Bryant, 1931) – USA, Mexico
Hibana discolor (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Brazil, Bolivia
Hibana flavescens (Schmidt, 1971) – Colombia
Hibana fusca (Franganillo, 1926) – Cuba
Hibana futilis (Banks, 1898) – USA to Venezuela, Cuba
Hibana gracilis (Hentz, 1847) – USA, Canada
Hibana incursa (Chamberlin, 1919) – USA to Panama
Hibana longipalpa (Bryant, 1931) – El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
Hibana melloleitaoi (Caporiacco, 1947) – Mexico to Brazil
Hibana similaris (Banks, 1929) – Mexico to Brazil
Hibana taboga Brescovit, 1991 – Panama
Hibana talmina Brescovit, 1993 – Dominican Rep., Trinidad, northern South America
Hibana tenuis (L. Koch, 1866) – Mexico to Venezuela, Caribbean
Hibana turquinensis (Bryant, 1940) – Cuba
Hibana velox (Becker, 1879) – USA, Mexico, Caribbean

^ ^a ^b ^c "Gen. Hibana Brescovit, 1991". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
^ Brescovit, A. D. (1991). "Hibana, novo gênero de aranhas da família Anyphaenidae (Arachnida, Araneae)". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 35: 729–744.

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