Neohahnia

Neohahnia
female N. piemontana
female N. pristirana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Hahniidae
Genus: Neohahnia
Mello-Leitão, 1917[1]
Type species
N. sylviae
Mello-Leitão, 1917
Species

4, see text

Neohahnia is a genus of dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1917.[2]

Five new species from Ecuador were described in 2024.[3]

Species

As of October 2025, this genus includes nine species:[1]

  • Neohahnia catleyi Dupérré & Tapia, 2024Ecuador
  • Neohahnia chibcha Heimer & Müller, 1988Colombia
  • Neohahnia ernsti (Simon, 1898)Puerto Rico, Cuba, St. Vincent, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil
  • Neohahnia freibergi Dupérré & Tapia, 2024 – Ecuador
  • Neohahnia palmicola Mello-Leitão, 1917 – Brazil
  • Neohahnia paramo Dupérré & Tapia, 2024 – Ecuador
  • Neohahnia piemontana Dupérré & Tapia, 2024 – Ecuador
  • Neohahnia pristirana Dupérré & Tapia, 2024 – Ecuador
  • Neohahnia sylviae Mello-Leitão, 1917 – Brazil (type species)

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Neohahnia Mello-Leitão, 1917". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
  2. ^ Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1917). "Generos e especies novas de araneidos". Archivos da Escola Superior de Agricultura e Medicina Veterinaria, Rio de Janeiro. 1: 3–19.
  3. ^ Dupérré, N.; Tapia, E. (2024). "First record of the family Hahniidae in Ecuador with description of thirteen new species and three new genera (Araneae: Hahniidae)". Taxonomy. 4: 53–111. doi:10.3390/taxonomy4010005. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.