Species Hibana gracilis

Classification · Identification · Range · Internet References · Works Cited

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes)

Family Anyphaenidae (Ghost Spiders)

Genus Hibana

Species gracilis (Hibana gracilis)

Identification

Spider is yellow to white with longitudinal stripes on the carapace, and dark spots arranged in two longitutinal rows cover the abdomen. This species can be identified by its brown chelicerae. (1)

Range

From New England to Florida and west to Texas and Kansas (Kaston, 1978)

Internet References

~ Samford.edu - Image.

Works Cited

1.	Spiders of the Eastern US, A Photographic Guide By W. Mike Howell and Ronald L. Jenkins

Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 15 November, 2008 - 9:58pm

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