Hypselistes Explained

Hypselistes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.^[1]

Species

it contains nine species and one subspecies, found in Canada, China, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, and the United States:^[2]

• Hypselistes acutidens Gao, Sha & Zhu, 1989 – China
• Hypselistes asiaticus Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 – Japan
• Hypselistes australis Saito & Ono, 2001 – Russia (Far East), Japan
• Hypselistes basarukini Marusik & Leech, 1993 – Russia (Sakhalin)
• Hypselistes florens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) (type) – USA, Canada
  • Hypselistes f. bulbiceps Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 – USA
• Hypselistes fossilobus Fei & Zhu, 1993 – Russia (Far East), China
• Hypselistes jacksoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China
• Hypselistes kolymensis Marusik & Leech, 1993 – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far North-East)
• Hypselistes semiflavus (L. Koch, 1879) – Russia (Europe to Far East), Japan

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (A–H)

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E. 1894. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Roret . Paris. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973. Eugène_Simon.
2. Gen. Hypselistes Simon, 1894. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-15. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.