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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders (Linyphiidae) » Dwarf Spiders (Erigoninae) » Hypselistes » Hypselistes florens

Species Hypselistes florens

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Season · Remarks
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Linyphiidae (Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders)
Subfamily Erigoninae (Dwarf Spiders)
Genus Hypselistes
Species florens (Hypselistes florens)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
See the World Spider Catalog.
Explanation of Names
Author: O. P.-Cambridge, 1875
Identification
Cephalothorax is bright orange; coxae, trochanters and femora similar in coloring, but the remaining leg segments are grey or pigmented with black. See images for distinctive pedipalp and cephalic lobe of male. The female is similar in appearance to Walckenaeria auranticeps, but the abdomen is wider. (Kaston, 1948)


Epigynum:


Palp:
Range
Eastern, northern, northwestern USA, Canada
Season
Matures in April (Kaston, 1948)
Remarks
Very common. (Kaston, 1948)
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 1 February, 2010 - 7:21pm
Additional contributions by cheins, pfeiffer
Last updated 4 November, 2020 - 11:18am

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