Hygropoda Explained

Hygropoda is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1894.^[1]

Species

it contains twenty-six species and one subspecies, found only in Asia, Africa, and Australia:^[2]

• Hygropoda africana Simon, 1898 – Gabon, Sierra Leone
• Hygropoda albolimbata (Thorell, 1878) – Indonesia (Ambon)
• Hygropoda argentata Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004 – China, Thailand
• Hygropoda balingkinitanus (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) – Philippines
• Hygropoda borbonica (Vinson, 1863) – Réunion
• Hygropoda bottrelli (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) – Philippines
• Hygropoda campanulata Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004 – China, Thailand
• Hygropoda celebesiana (Strand, 1913) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Hygropoda chandrakantii (Reddy & Patel, 1993) – India
• Hygropoda dolomedes (Doleschall, 1859) – Indonesia (Ambon)
• Hygropoda gracilis (Thorell, 1891) – India (Nicobar Is.)
• Hygropoda higenaga (Kishida, 1936) – China, Taiwan, Japan
• Hygropoda linearis (Simon, 1903) – Madagascar
• Hygropoda lineata (Thorell, 1881) – Indonesia to Australia
• Hygropoda longimana (Stoliczka, 1869) – Bangladesh, Malaysia
• Hygropoda longitarsis (Thorell, 1877) – Vietnam, Indonesia (Sulawesi)
  • Hygropoda l. fasciata (Thorell, 1877) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Hygropoda macropus Pocock, 1897 – Indonesia (Moluccas)
• Hygropoda madagascarica Strand, 1907 – Madagascar
• Hygropoda menglun Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004 – China
• Hygropoda procera Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
• Hygropoda prognatha Thorell, 1894 (type) – Singapore
• Hygropoda sikkimus (Tikader, 1970) – India (mainland, Andaman Is.)
• Hygropoda subannulipes Strand, 1911 – Indonesia (Aru Is.)
• Hygropoda taeniata Wang, 1993 – China
• Hygropoda tangana (Roewer, 1955) – Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, Madagascar
• Hygropoda yunnan Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004 – China, Thailand, Laos

See also

• List of Pisauridae species

Notes and References

1. Thorell. T.. 1894. Decas aranearum in ins. Singapore a Cel. Th. Workman inventarum. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana. 321–355. 26. Tamerlan Thorell.
2. Gen. Hygropoda Thorell, 1894. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-05. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.