Explanation of Names
Author of family (and genus
Hypochilus) is Marx, G. 1888. On a new and interesting spider. Ent. Amer. 4: 160-162. (George Marx, American, 1838-1895, see
Wikispecies).
Numbers
One North American genus, Hypochilus, with ten species
Range
All species from US
California:
H. bernardino - Catley, 1994 - San Bernardino Mtns, California
H. kastoni - Platnick, 1987 - Klamath Siskiyou Mtns, California
H. petrunkevitchi - Gertsch, 1958 - central Sierra Nevada, California
Rockies:
H. bonneti - Gertsch, 1964 - central Colorado, mostly from caves
H. jemez - Catley, 1994 - montane northern New Mexico
southern Appalachians:
H. coylei - Platnick, 1987 - western North Carolina
H. gertschi - Hoffman, 1963 - southwest Virginia, southern West Virginia
H. pococki - Platnick, 1987 - northern Georgia, western North Carolina, east Tennessee
H. sheari - Platnick, 1987 - western North Carolina
H. thorelli - Marx, 1888 - northern Georgia to southern Kentucky
Ranges of bonneti, gertschi, petrunkevitchi & thorelli from
How to Know the Spiders.
(1)
The rest of the ranges are from
Spiders of North America.
(2)
