Hypsocephalus

Hypsocephalus is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Alfred Frank Millidge in 1978.[2]

Hypsocephalus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Hypsocephalus
Millidge, 1978[1]
Type species
H. pusillus
(Menge, 1869)
Species

4, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains four species, found in France, Italy, and Switzerland:[1]

  • Hypsocephalus huberti (Millidge, 1975) – France (Corsica)
  • Hypsocephalus nesiotes (Simon, 1915) – France (Corsica)
  • Hypsocephalus paulae (Simon, 1918) – France, Switzerland, Italy
  • Hypsocephalus pusillus (Menge, 1869) (type) – Europe

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Hypsocephalus Millidge, 1978". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  2. Millidge, A. F. (1978). "The genera Mecopisthes Simon and Hypsocephalus n.gen. and their phylogenetic relationships (Araneae: Linyphiidae)". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 4: 113–123.
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