Hilaira

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Linyphiidae
Subfamilia: Erigoninae
Genus: Hilaira
Species: H. asiatica – H. banini – H. canaliculata – H. dapaensis – H. devitata – H. excisa – H. gertschi – H. gibbosa – H. glacialis – H. herniosa – H. incondita – H. jamalensis – H. marusiki – H. minuta – H. nivalis – H. nubigena – H. pelikena – H. pervicax – H. proletaria – H. sibirica – H. syrojeczkovskii – H. tuberculifera – H. vexatrix
Name

Hilaira Simon, 1884

Type species: Neriene excisa O. P.-Cambridge, 1871
Synonyms

Utopiellum Strand, 1901
Arctilaira Chamberlin, 1921
Soudinus Crosby & Bishop, 1936

References

Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Hilaira is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.[5]
Species

As of May 2019 it contains twenty-five species, found in Canada, China, Greenland, Ireland, Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, Norway, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States:[1]

Hilaira asiatica Eskov, 1987 – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far North-East)
Hilaira banini Marusik & Tanasevitch, 2003 – Mongolia
Hilaira canaliculata (Emerton, 1915) – Russia (Far North-East to Kurile Is.), USA, Canada
Hilaira dapaensis Wunderlich, 1983 – Nepal
Hilaira devitata Eskov, 1987 – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East)
Hilaira excisa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) (type) – Europe
Hilaira gertschi Holm, 1960 – Russia (north-east Siberia, Wrangel Is.), USA (Alaska)
Hilaira gibbosa Tanasevitch, 1982 – Russia (Europe to Far East), Mongolia, Canada
Hilaira glacialis (Thorell, 1871) – Norway, Russia (Europe to Far East)
Hilaira herniosa (Thorell, 1875) – North America, Switzerland, Turkey, Scandinavia, Russia (Europe to Far East), Mongolia, Japan
Hilaira hyperboreus (Kulczyński, 1908) – Russia (Middle Siberia)
Hilaira incondita (L. Koch, 1879) – Russia (Europe to Far North-East), Canada
Hilaira jamalensis Eskov, 1981 – Russia (Europe to north-eastern Siberia)
Hilaira marusiki Eskov, 1987 – Russia (north-eastern Siberia), Mongolia
Hilaira meridionalis Tanasevitch, 2013 – Russia (South Siberia)
Hilaira minuta Eskov, 1979 – Russia (West Siberia to Far East), Mongolia
Hilaira nivalis Holm, 1937 – Russia (Urals to north-eastern Siberia)
Hilaira nubigena Hull, 1911 – Britain, Poland, Scandinavia, Russia (Europe to Far North-East), USA (Alaska)
Hilaira pelikena Eskov, 1987 – Russia (Far East)
Hilaira pervicax Hull, 1908 – Ireland, Britain, Scandinavia, Russia (Europe to north-eastern Siberia)
Hilaira proletaria (L. Koch, 1879) – Russia (Urals to Far North-East), USA (Alaska)
Hilaira sibirica Eskov, 1987 – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East), Mongolia, Canada
Hilaira syrojeczkovskii Eskov, 1981 – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East)
Hilaira tuberculifera Sha & Zhu, 1995 – China
Hilaira vexatrix (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – Russia (north-eastern Siberia, Far North-East), North America, Greenland