Hedana

Hedana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Hedana L. Koch, 1874 [1]
Type species
H. gracilis L. Koch, 1874
Species
10, see text

Hedana is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1874. ^[2]

Species

As of September 2020 ^[update] it contains ten widely distributed species: ^[1]

• Hedana bonneti Chrysanthus, 1964 – New Guinea
• Hedana gracilis L. Koch, 1874 (type) – Australia (New South Wales)
• Hedana maculosa Hogg, 1896 – Central Australia
• Hedana morgani (Simon, 1885) – Malaysia
• Hedana ocellata Thorell, 1890 – Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)
• Hedana octoperlata Simon, 1895 – Venezuela
• Hedana pallida L. Koch, 1876 – Tonga
• Hedana perspicax Thorell, 1890 – Myanmar, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)
• Hedana subtilis L. Koch, 1874 – Tonga
• Hedana valida L. Koch, 1875 – Australia

See also

• List of Thomisidae species

References

1. "Gen. Hedana L. Koch, 1874". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2020-10-10.
2. Koch, L. (1874). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Vol. 2. Bauer & Raspe. pp. 473–576. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660.

Further reading

• Chrysanthus, P. (1964). "Spiders from south New Guinea VI". Nova Guinea, Zoology. 28: 87–104.
• Thorell, T. (1890). "Diagnoses aranearum aliquot novarum in Indo-Malesia inventarum". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 30: 132–172.
• Hogg, H. R. (1896), "Araneidae", in Spencer, B. (ed.), Report of the Horn expedition to central Australia
• Simon, E. (1895). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Thomisidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 39: 432–443.