Heriaeus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1875.[2]

Heriaeus
Heriaeus hirtus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Heriaeus
Simon, 1875[1]
Type species
H. hirtus
(Latreille, 1819)
Species

37, see text

Species

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As of November 2022 it contains thirty-seven species, found in Europe, Asia, and Africa:[1]

In synonymy:

  • H. claveatus (Walckenaer, 1837) = Heriaeus hirtus (Latreille, 1819)
  • H. fimbriatus Lawrence, 1942 = Heriaeus crassispinus Lawrence, 1942
  • H. kumaonensis (Tikader, 1980) = Heriaeus horridus Tyschchenko, 1965
  • H. propinquus Kulczyński, 1903 = Heriaeus simoni Kulczyński, 1903
  • H. sareptanus Loerbroks, 1983 = Heriaeus horridus Tyschchenko, 1965

Nomina dubia

  • H. difficilis Strand, 1906
  • H. melanotrichus Simon, 1903

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Heriaeus Simon, 1875". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  2. ^ Simon, E. (1875). Les arachnides de France. Paris 2. pp. 1–350.
  3. ^ Naumova, Maria; Blagoev, Gergin; Deltshev, Christo (June 2021). "Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae)". Zootaxa. 4984 (1): 228–257. Retrieved 6 June 2024.

Further reading

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  • Loerbroks, A. (1983). "Revision der Krabbenspinnen-Gattung Heriaeus Simon (Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae)". Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF. 26: 85–139.
  • Niekerk, P. van; Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2013). "A revision of the crab spider genus Heriaeus Simon, 1875 (Araneae: Thomisidae) in the Afrotropical region". African Invertebrates. 54 (2): 447–476. doi:10.5733/afin.054.0213. S2CID 86136149.
  • Utochkin, A. S. (1985). "Materials of the spider genus Heriaeus (Aranei, Thomisidae) of the USSR". Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Leningrad. 139: 105–113.
  • Kulczyński, W. (1903). "Arachnoidea in Asia Minore et ad Constantinopolim a Dre F. Werner collecta". Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, Wien. 112: 627–680.
  • Vidal, E.; Oger, P. (2017). "Heriaeus graminicola (Doleschall, 1852) (Araneae, Thomisidae) unse espèce confirmée pour la faune de France". Revue Arachnologique. 4: 11–13.