Hahnia (spider)

Hahnia
Female H. lobata
Male H. tabulicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Hahniidae
Genus:	Hahnia C. L. Koch, 1841 [1]
Type species
H. pusilla C. L. Koch, 1841
Species
105, see text
Synonyms [1]
HahniopsCarl Friedrich Roewer Roewer, 1942 [2] Hahnistea Ralph Vary ChamberlinChamberlin & Wilton Ivie Ivie, 1942 [3] Muizenbergia Hewitt, 1915 [4] Simonida Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1958 [5] Unzickeria Pekka T. LehtinenLehtinen, 1967 [3]

Hahnia is a genus of dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by C. L. Koch in 1841. ^[6]

Species

As of October 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes 105 species: ^[1]

• Hahnia abrahami (Hewitt, 1915) – South Africa
• Hahnia alini Tikader, 1964 – Nepal
• Hahnia anophthalma Barrientos & Mederos, 2024 – Morocco
• Hahnia arizonica Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – Alaska, Canada, United States
• Hahnia banksi Fage, 1938 – Costa Rica, Panama
• Hahnia barbara Denis, 1937 – Algeria
• Hahnia barbata Bosmans, 1992 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Hahnia benoiti Bosmans & Thijs, 1980 – Kenya
• Hahnia biapophysis Huang & Zhang, 2017 – China
• Hahnia breviducta Bosmans & Thijs, 1980 – Kenya
• Hahnia caelebs Brignoli, 1978 – Bhutan
• Hahnia cameroonensis Bosmans, 1987 – Cameroon
• Hahnia cervicornata Wang & Zhang, 1986 – China
• Hahnia chaoyangensis C. D. Zhu & S. F. Zhu, 1983 – China
• Hahnia cinerea Emerton, 1890 – Alaska, Canada, United States, Mexico
• Hahnia clathrata Simon, 1898 – Namibia, South Africa
• Hahnia corticicola Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 – Russia (East Siberia, Far East), Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan
• Hahnia crozetensis Hickman, 1939 – Crozet Is.
• Hahnia deiocesi Zamani & Marusik, 2021 – Iran
• Hahnia dewittei Bosmans, 1986 – DR Congo
• Hahnia dongi Huang & Zhang, 2017 – China
• Hahnia eburneensis Jocqué & Bosmans, 1982 – Ivory Coast
• Hahnia eidmanni (Roewer, 1942) – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
• Hahnia falcata Wang, 1989 – China
• Hahnia flaviceps Emerton, 1913 – United States
• Hahnia gigantea Bosmans, 1986 – DR Congo, Uganda
• Hahnia glacialis Sørensen, 1898 – Russia (East Siberia, Far East), Alaska, Canada, United States, Greenland
• Hahnia harmae Brignoli, 1977 – Tunisia
• Hahnia hauseri Brignoli, 1978 – Spain (Balearic Is.)
• Hahnia helveola Simon, 1875 – Europe, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan
• Hahnia heterophthalma Simon, 1905 – Argentina
• Hahnia himalayaensis Hu & Zhang, 1990 – China, Vietnam
• Hahnia implexa Seo, 2017 – Korea
• Hahnia inflata Benoit, 1978 – Kenya
• Hahnia innupta Brignoli, 1978 – Bhutan
• Hahnia insulana Schenkel, 1938 – Madeira
• Hahnia jiangkou Gan, Wang & Mi, 2023 – China
• Hahnia jocquei Bosmans, 1982 – Malawi
• Hahnia laodiana Song, 1990 – China
• Hahnia larseni Marusik, 2017 – South Africa
• Hahnia laticeps Simon, 1898 – South Africa, St. Helena
• Hahnia lehtineni Brignoli, 1978 – Bhutan
• Hahnia leopoldi Bosmans, 1982 – Cameroon
• Hahnia linderi Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Islands
• Hahnia lobata Bosmans, 1981 – South Africa
• Hahnia maginii Brignoli, 1977 – Italy
• Hahnia major Benoit, 1978 – Kenya
• Hahnia manengoubensis Bosmans, 1987 – Cameroon
• Hahnia martialis Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 – Japan
• Hahnia mauensis Bosmans, 1986 – Kenya
• Hahnia michaelseni Simon, 1902 – Chile, Argentina, Falkland Is.
• Hahnia molossidis Brignoli, 1979 – Greece
• Hahnia montana Seo, 2017 – Korea
• Hahnia mridulae Tikader, 1970 – India
• Hahnia musica Brignoli, 1978 – Bhutan, China
• Hahnia naguaboi (Lehtinen, 1967) – Puerto Rico
• Hahnia nava (Blackwall, 1841) – Europe, Morocco, Russia (Europe to Far East), Turkey, Israel, Caucasus, Iran, Korea, Japan
• Hahnia ngai Rivera-Quiroz, Petcharad & Miller, 2020 – Thailand
• Hahnia nigricans Benoit, 1978 – Kenya
• Hahnia nobilis Opell & Beatty, 1976 – Mexico
• Hahnia obliquitibialis Bosmans, 1982 – Malawi
• Hahnia okefinokensis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1934 – United States
• Hahnia ononidum Simon, 1875 – Canada, United States, Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, China
• Hahnia oreophila Simon, 1898 – Sri Lanka
• Hahnia ovata Song & Zheng, 1982 – China
• Hahnia petrobia Simon, 1875 – Spain, France, Italy, Germany
• Hahnia pinicola Arita, 1978 – Japan
• Hahnia pusilla C. L. Koch, 1841 – Europe, Russia (Europe, Caucasus, South Siberia) (type species)
• Hahnia pusio Simon, 1898 – Sri Lanka
• Hahnia pyriformis Yin & Wang, 1984 – China
• Hahnia quadriseta Galán-Sánchez & Álvarez-Padilla, 2017 – Mexico
• Hahnia rimiformis Zhang, Li & Pham, 2013 – Vietnam
• Hahnia rossii Brignoli, 1977 – Italy, Iran
• Hahnia saccata Zhang, Li & Zheng, 2011 – China, Thailand
• Hahnia sanjuanensis Exline, 1938 – United States, Mexico
• Hahnia schubotzi Strand, 1913 – Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, South Africa
• Hahnia sexoculata Ponomarev, 2009 – Russia (Caucasus)
• Hahnia sibirica Marusik, Hippa & Koponen, 1996 – Russia (Europe to Far East), China
• Hahnia simoni Mello-Leitão, 1919 – Brazil
• Hahnia sirimoni Benoit, 1978 – Kenya
• Hahnia spasskyi Denis, 1958 – Afghanistan
• Hahnia spinata Benoit, 1978 – Kenya
• Hahnia subcorticicola Liu, Huang & Zhang, 2015 – China
• Hahnia submaginii Zhang, Li & Zheng, 2011 – China
• Hahnia subsaccata Huang & Zhang, 2017 – China
• Hahnia tabulicola Simon, 1898 – Cameroon, DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Botswana, South Africa
• Hahnia tanikawai Suguro, 2015 – Japan
• Hahnia tatei (Gertsch, 1934) – Venezuela
• Hahnia thorntoni Brignoli, 1982 – China, Hong Kong, Laos, Japan
• Hahnia thymorum Emerit & Ledoux, 2014 – France
• Hahnia tikaderi Brignoli, 1978 – Bhutan
• Hahnia tortuosa Song & Kim, 1991 – China
• Hahnia tuybaana Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
• Hahnia ulyxis Brignoli, 1974 – Greece
• Hahnia upembaensis Bosmans, 1986 – Congo
• Hahnia vangoethemi Benoit, 1978 – Kenya
• Hahnia vanwaerebeki Bosmans, 1987 – Cameroon
• Hahnia veracruzana Gertsch & Davis, 1940 – Mexico
• Hahnia wangi Huang & Zhang, 2017 – China
• Hahnia weiningensis Huang, Chen & Zhang, 2018 – China
• Hahnia yakouensis Chen, Yan & Yin, 2009 – China
• Hahnia zhejiangensis Song & Zheng, 1982 – China, Taiwan, Vietnam
• Hahnia zhui Zhang & Chen, 2015 – China
• Hahnia zhuyifani Lin & Li, 2024 – China
• Hahnia zodarioides (Simon, 1898) – South Africa

References

1. "Genus Hahnia". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-02.
2. Bosmans, R. (1980). "Studies on African Hahniidae. I. The taxonomic status of Hahniops Roewer 1942, with redescription of its type species (Arachnida: Araneae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica. 61: 94.
3. Opell, B. D.; Beatty, J. A. (1976). "The Nearctic Hahniidae (Arachnida: Araneae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 147: 420.
4. Bosmans, R. (1992). "Spiders of the family Hahniidae from Sulawesi, Indonesia with remarks on synonymy and zoogeography (Arachnida: Araneae: Hahniidae)". Belgian Journal of Zoology. 122: 90.
5. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 250.
6. Koch, C. L. (1841). Die Arachniden.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Hahnia at iNaturalist