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]

Hypsosinga
Hypsosinga albovittata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Hypsosinga Ausserer, 1871[1]
Type species
H. sanguinea (C. L. Koch, 1844)
Species
21, see text

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^[update] 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