Hirriusa

Hirriusa is a genus of African running crab spiders that was first described by Embrik Strand in 1932.[2] As of June 2019 it contains only three species, found only in South Africa and Namibia: H. arenacea, H. bidentata, and H. variegata.[1]

Hirriusa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Philodromidae
Genus: Hirriusa
Strand, 1932[1]
Type species
H. variegata
(Simon, 1895)
Species
  • H. arenacea (Lawrence, 1927) – Namibia
  • H. bidentata (Lawrence, 1927) – Namibia
  • H. variegata (Simon, 1895) – South Africa

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Hirriusa Strand, 1932". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. Strand, E. (1932). "Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica, III, IV". Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica, Rigā. 4: 193–196.


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