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| Hongkongia | |
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| Hongkongia sp. from Hong Kong | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Gnaphosidae |
| Genus: | Hongkongia Song & Zhu, 1998[1] |
| Type species | |
| Hongkongia wuae Song & Zhu, 1998 | |
| Species | |
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Hongkongia is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by D. X. Song & Ming-Sheng Zhu in 1998.[2]
Distribution
[edit]Spiders in this genus are found in Asia from India to the Philippines and Indonesia, with one described species endemic to West Africa.[1]
Etymology
[edit]The genus is named after Hong Kong. See the taxonomy section for details.
Taxonomy
[edit]Originally, specimens collected in 1995 by Ms. Wu of Hong Kong were designated as the type species Hongkongia wuae.[2] In 2024, this species was found to be the same as the previously described species Geodrassus ellenae Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 with a distribution from China to Sulawesi and the Philippines. Hence G. ellenae was moved to genus Hongkongia and is now the type species by synonymy.[3]
In 2019, Marusik and Omelko moved the West African species Echemus incinctus Simon, 1907 to this genus based on the structure of the male palp.[4]
The genus Hongkongia was revised in 2009, describing a new species endemic to Taiwan, which the authors found to be very similar to H. reptrix Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001. They concluded that the genus is close to Megamyrmaekion Wider, 1834.[5]
Species
[edit]As of October 2025[update], this genus includes seven species:[1]
- Hongkongia caeca Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia (Moluccas)
- Hongkongia ellenae (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) – China, Indonesia (Sulawesi), Philippines
- Hongkongia incincta (Simon, 1907) – Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau
- Hongkongia liutang Lin & Li, 2023 – China
- Hongkongia novia Sankaran & Tripathi, 2023 – India
- Hongkongia reptrix Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Japan, China, Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Bali)
- Hongkongia songi Zhang, Zhu & Tso, 2009 – Taiwan
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Gen. Hongkongia Song & Zhu, 1998". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
- 1 2 Song, D. X.; Zhu, M. S. (1998). "A new genus and two new species of Hong Kong spiders (Gnaphosidae, Corinnidae)". Journal of Hebei Normal University, Natural Sciences. 22: 104–108.
- ↑ Lin, Y. J. (2024). "Taxonomy notes on twenty-five spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from China". The Indochina Entomologist. 1: 35–48. doi:10.70590/ice.2024.01.06.
- ↑ Marusik, Y. M.; Omelko, M. M. (2019). "Redescription of gnaphosids (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) described by O. Pickard-Cambridge from the material of the Second Yarkand Mission". Arthropoda Selecta. 28: 277–290. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.2.11.
- ↑ Zhang, F.; Zhu, M. S. (2009). "Review of the genus Hongkongia (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from China". Zootaxa. 2164: 61–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2164.1.6.
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