Hygropoda is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1894.[3]

Hygropoda
Hygropoda sp.
Hygropoda sp.
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pisauridae
Genus: Hygropoda
Thorell, 1894[1]
Type species
H. prognatha
Thorell, 1894
Species

26, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

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As of June 2019 it contains twenty-six species and one subspecies, found only in Asia, Africa, and Australia:[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Hygropoda Thorell, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. ^ Silva, E. L. C. da (2012). "On the nursery-web spider genus Hypsithylla Simon, 1903 (Araneae: Pisauridae) and its synonymy with Hygropoda Thorell, 1894". Zootaxa. 3523: 60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3523.1.6.
  3. ^ Thorell, T. (1894). "Decas aranearum in ins. Singapore a Cel. Th. Workman inventarum". Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana. 26: 321–355.