Hispo
Encyclopedia
Hispo is a genus
of the spider
family Salticidae (jumping spiders).
Species of Hispo range in body length from 5 to 7 mm in females, and 3 to 4 in males.
, with others found in a range from Africa to India. These parts were mostly connected during the time of Gondwana
, or lie close. H. alboguttata is found in Sumatra.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of the spider
Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
family Salticidae (jumping spiders).
Species of Hispo range in body length from 5 to 7 mm in females, and 3 to 4 in males.
Distribution
Most species are found in MadagascarMadagascar
The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...
, with others found in a range from Africa to India. These parts were mostly connected during the time of Gondwana
Gondwana
In paleogeography, Gondwana , originally Gondwanaland, was the southernmost of two supercontinents that later became parts of the Pangaea supercontinent. It existed from approximately 510 to 180 million years ago . Gondwana is believed to have sutured between ca. 570 and 510 Mya,...
, or lie close. H. alboguttata is found in Sumatra.
Species
- Hispo alboclypea Wanless, 1981 — SeychellesSeychellesSeychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....
- Hispo alboguttataHispo alboguttataHispo alboguttata is a spider species of the Salticidae family . The species is only known from one immature female described in 1903 by Eugène Simon.-Description:...
Simon, 1903 — SumatraSumatraSumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the sixth largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 with a population of 50,365,538... - Hispo bipartita Simon, 1903 — IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Sri LankaSri LankaSri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the... - Hispo cingulata Simon, 1885 — MadagascarMadagascarThe Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...
- Hispo frenata (Simon, 1900) — Madagascar
- Hispo inermis (Caporiacco, 1947) — Central, East AfricaEast AfricaEast Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN scheme of geographic regions, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...
- Hispo macfarlanei Wanless, 1981 — Madagascar
- Hispo pullata Wanless, 1981 — Madagascar
- Hispo striolata Simon, 1898 — Seychelles
- Hispo sulcata Wanless, 1981 — Madagascar
- Hispo tenuis Wanless, 1981 — Madagascar