Hypsosinga

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: Araneidae
Subfamilia: Araneinae
Tribus: Dolophonini
Genus: Hypsosinga
Species: H. alberta – H. alboria – H. albovittata – H. clax – H. funebris – H. groenlandica – H. heri – H. kazachstanica – H. lithyphantoides – H. lithyphantoides – H. luzhongxiani – H. pulla – H. pygmaea – H. rubens – H. ryani – H. sanguinea – H. satpuraensis – H. taprobanica – H. turkmenica – H. vaulogeri – H. wanica – H. zioni
Name

Hypsosinga Ausserer, 1871

Type species: Hypsosinga sanguinea C. L. Koch, 1844
References
Primary references

Ausserer, A. 1871. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 21: 117–224. Reference page.

Additional references

Bodkhe, A.K., Uniyal, V.P. & Kamble, S.S. 2016a. First record of genus Hypsosinga Ausserer, 1871 from India with description of Hypsosinga satpuraensis sp. n. (Araneae: Araneidae). Serket 15(2): 92-96. Reference page.
Mi, X-Q., Li, S-Q. & Pham, D-S. 2023. On five new species of the genera Araneus and Hypsosinga (Araneae, Araneidae) from Vietnam. Zookeys 1161ː 69–87. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1161.102375 Open access Reference page.
Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Vernacular names
English: Hypsosinga

Hypsosinga is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Anton Ausserer in 1871.[2] The genus name is derived from the Greek "hypso", meaning "high", referring to the higher clypeus than those of the genus Singa.[3]

In 2015, female Hypsosinga heri spiders were identified at the RSPB Radipole Lake nature reserve in Dorset, England. The previous recorded sightings of the species in the UK were in 1898 and 1912 at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire.[4]
Species

As of April 2019 it contains twenty-one species:[1]

Hypsosinga alberta Levi, 1972 – Russia (East Siberia), Canada
Hypsosinga alboria Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China
Hypsosinga albovittata (Westring, 1851) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Middle East, Central Asia
Hypsosinga clax Oliger, 1993 – Russia (Far East)
Hypsosinga funebris (Keyserling, 1892) – USA, Canada
Hypsosinga groenlandica Simon, 1889 – USA, Canada, Greenland
Hypsosinga heri (Hahn, 1831) – Europe, Caucasus, Israel, Russia (Europe to Central Asia, West Siberia), Central Asia, China
Hypsosinga kazachstanica Ponomarev, 2007 – Kazakhstan
Hypsosinga lithyphantoides Caporiacco, 1947 – Uganda, Kenya
Hypsosinga l. dealbata Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
Hypsosinga luzhongxiani Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013 – China
Hypsosinga pygmaea (Sundevall, 1831) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan
Hypsosinga p. nigra (Simon, 1909) – Vietnam
Hypsosinga p. nigriceps (Kulczyński, 1903) – Turkey
Hypsosinga rubens (Hentz, 1847) – USA, Canada
Hypsosinga sanguinea (C. L. Koch, 1844) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan
Hypsosinga satpuraensis Bodkhe, Uniyal & Kamble, 2016 – India
Hypsosinga taprobanica (Simon, 1895) – Sri Lanka
Hypsosinga turkmenica Bakhvalov, 1978 – Turkmenistan
Hypsosinga vaulogeri (Simon, 1909) – Vietnam
Hypsosinga wanica Song, Qian & Gao, 1996 – China

References

"Gen. Hypsosinga Ausserer, 1871". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
Ausserer, A. (1871). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor)". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 21: 117–224.
"Genus Hypsosinga". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
"'Extinct' Hypsosinga heri spider found in Dorset reserve". BBC News Online. 2015-06-15. Retrieved 2015-06-15.