Hiboka

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Speciesbox

| taxon = Hiboka geayi

| authority = Fage, 1922

| parent_authority = Fage, 1922

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Hiboka is a monotypic genus of East African armored trapdoor spiders containing the single species, Hiboka geayi. It was first described by L. Fage in 1922,{{cite journal| last=Fage| first=L.| year=1922| title=Materiaux pour servir à la faune des arachnides de Madagascar (Premiere note).| journal=Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris| pages=365–370| volume=1922}} and has only been found on Madagascar.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Hiboka Fage, 1922| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-06-12| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1091| doi=10.24436/2}} Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the armored trapdoor spiders in 1985.{{cite journal| last=Raven| first=R. J.| year=1985| title=The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics| journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| volume=182| page=138| author-link=Robert Raven}}

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