Histopona

Histopona Temporal range: Palaeogene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
H. torpida in Austria
female H. italica in Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Agelenidae
Genus:	Histopona Thorell, 1870 [1]
Type species
H. torpida (C. L. Koch, 1837)
Species
23, see text
Synonyms [1]
Roeweriana [2]

Histopona is a genus of funnel weavers first described as a sub-genus of Hadites by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870. ^[3] It was elevated to genus by Brignoli in 1972. ^[4]

Species

As of December 2024 ^[update] it contains twenty-three species: ^[1]

• Histopona bidens (Absolon & Kratochvíl, 1933) – Croatia, Macedonia
• Histopona breviemboli Dimitrov, Deltshev & Lazarov, 2017 – Bulgaria, Turkey (Europe)
• Histopona conveniens (Kulczyński, 1914) – Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Histopona dubia (Absolon & Kratochvíl, 1933) – Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Histopona egonpretneri Deeleman-Reinhold, 1983 – Croatia
• Histopona fioni Bolzern, Pantini & Isaia, 2013 – Switzerland, Italy
• Histopona hauseri (Brignoli, 1972) – Greece, Macedonia
• Histopona isolata Deeleman-Reinhold, 1983 – Greece (Crete)
• Histopona italica Brignoli, 1977 – Italy
• Histopona krivosijana (Kratochvíl, 1935) – Montenegro
• Histopona kurkai Deltshev & Indzhov, 2018 – Albania, Macedonia
• Histopona laeta (Kulczyński, 1897) – Balkans
• Histopona leonardoi Bolzern, Pantini & Isaia, 2013 – Switzerland, Italy
• Histopona luxurians (Kulczyński, 1897) – Austria to Ukraine and south-eastern Europe
• Histopona myops (Simon, 1885) – South-eastern Europe
• Histopona palaeolithica (Brignoli, 1971) – Italy, Montenegro
• Histopona petrovi Isaia & Mammola, 2019 – Montenegro
• Histopona sinuata (Kulczyński, 1897) – Romania
• Histopona strinatii (Brignoli, 1976) – Greece
• Histopona thaleri Gasparo, 2005 – Greece
• Histopona torpida (C. L. Koch, 1837) – Europe, Caucasus
• Histopona tranteevi Deltshev, 1978 – Bulgaria
• Histopona vignai Brignoli, 1980 – Albania, Macedonia, Greece

References

1. "Gen. Histopona Thorell, 1870". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
2. Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (1983). "The genus Histopona Thorell (Araneae, Agelenidae) with description of two new cave-dwelling species". Mémoires de Biospéologie. 10: 326.
3. Thorell, T. (1869). "On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 7 (3): 1–108.
4. Brignoli, P. M. (1972). "Su alcuni ragni cavernicoli di Corfù (Arachnida, Araneae)". Revue suisse de Zoologie . 79: 861–869. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.97139 .

External links

• Citizen science observations for Histopona at iNaturalist