Hibana

Hibana
Hibana velox
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Anyphaenidae
Genus:	Hibana Brescovit, 1991
Species
See text.
Diversity
17 species

Hibana is a spider genus that is found from the United States to Brazil, including the West Indies. It includes the yellow ghost spider of North America, which was formerly categorized in a different genus as Aysha velox.

Species

• Hibana kage (Kazura, 1890) (Japan)
• Hibana arunda (Platnick, 1974) (U.S., Mexico)
• Hibana cambridgei (Bryant, 1931) (U.S., Mexico)
• Hibana discolor (Mello-Leitão, 1929) (Brazil, Bolivia)
• Hibana flavescens (Schmidt, 1971) (Colombia)
• Hibana fusca (Franganillo, 1926) (Cuba)
• Hibana futilis (Banks, 1898) (U.S. to Venezuela, Cuba)
• Hibana gracilis (Hentz, 1847) (U.S., Canada)
• Hibana incursa (Chamberlin, 1919) (U.S. to Panama)
• Hibana longipalpa (Bryant, 1931) (El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica)
• Hibana melloleitaoi (Caporiacco, 1947) (Mexico to Brazil)
• Hibana similaris (Banks, 1929) (Mexico to Brazil)
• Hibana taboga Brescovit, 1991 (Panama)
• Hibana talmina Brescovit, 1993 (Dominica, Trinidad, northern South America)
• Hibana tenuis (L. Koch, 1866) (Mexico to Venezuela, West Indies)
• Hibana turquinensis (Bryant, 1940) (Cuba)
• Hibana velox (Becker, 1879) (U.S., Mexico, West Indies)