Hyptiotes

Hyptiotes Temporal range: Palaeogene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Female from Okinawa, Japan
Female Hyptiotes cavatus from Woodbridge, Virginia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Uloboridae
Genus:	Hyptiotes Walckenaer, 1837
Diversity
15 species

Hyptiotes is a genus of spiders in the family Uloboridae.

Feeding[]

Hyptiotes creates a triangular web and sits at a vertex until it detects vibrations that signify the collision of its prey. At this moment the spider releases a coil of silk which it has held taut in such a manner that the tension of the web causes it to entangle the prey. The spider then wraps its prey in special wrapping silk.^[1]

Species[]

• Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 — China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
• Wiehle, 1964 — South Africa
• Hyptiotes analis Simon, 1892 — Sri Lanka
• Hyptiotes cavatus (Hentz, 1847) — USA, Canada
• Hyptiotes dentatus Wunderlich, 2008 — France
• Dong, Zhu & Yoshida, 2005 — China
• (Blackwall, 1862) — Mediterranean to Russia
• Hyptiotes gertschi Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 — USA, Canada, Alaska
• Tikader, 1981 — India
• Simon, 1905 — India
• Hyptiotes paradoxus (C. L. Koch, 1834) — Palearctic
• Hyptiotes puebla Muma & Gertsch, 1964 — USA
• Dong, Zhu & Yoshida, 2005 — China
• Muma & Gertsch, 1964 — USA
• Liu, Wang & Peng, 1991 — China

References[]

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