Histopona Explained

Histopona is a genus of funnel weavers first described as a sub-genus of Hadites by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870.^[1] It was elevated to genus by Brignoli in 1972.^[2]

Species

it contains twenty-two species:^[3]

Histopona bidens (Absolon & Kratochvíl, 1933) – Croatia, Macedonia
Histopona breviemboli Dimitrov, Deltshev & Lazarov, 2017 – Bulgaria, Turkey (Europe)
Histopona conveniens (Kulczyński, 1914) – Bosnia and Herzegovina
Histopona dubia (Absolon & Kratochvíl, 1933) – Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Histopona egonpretneri Deeleman-Reinhold, 1983 – Croatia
Histopona fioni Bolzern, Pantini & Isaia, 2013 – Switzerland, Italy
Histopona hauseri (Brignoli, 1972) – Greece, Macedonia
Histopona isolata Deeleman-Reinhold, 1983 – Greece (Crete)
Histopona italica Brignoli, 1977 – Italy
Histopona krivosijana (Kratochvíl, 1935) – Montenegro
Histopona kurkai Deltshev & Indzhov, 2018 – Albania, Macedonia
Histopona laeta (Kulczyński, 1897) – Balkans
Histopona leonardoi Bolzern, Pantini & Isaia, 2013 – Switzerland, Italy
Histopona luxurians (Kulczyński, 1897) – Austria to Ukraine and south-eastern Europe
Histopona myops (Simon, 1885) – South-eastern Europe
Histopona palaeolithica (Brignoli, 1971) – Italy, Montenegro
Histopona sinuata (Kulczyński, 1897) – Romania
Histopona strinatii (Brignoli, 1976) – Greece
Histopona thaleri Gasparo, 2005 – Greece
Histopona torpida (C. L. Koch, 1837) – Europe, Caucasus
Histopona tranteevi Deltshev, 1978 – Bulgaria
Histopona vignai Brignoli, 1980 – Albania, Macedonia, Greece

Thorell. T.. 1869. On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature.. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 1–108. 7. 3.
Brignoli. P. M.. 1972. Su alcuni ragni cavernicoli di Corfù (Arachnida, Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie. 79. 861–869. 10.5962/bhl.part.97139. free.
Web site: Gen. Histopona Thorell, 1870. World Spider Catalog. 2019-05-07. Natural History Museum Bern.