Heriaeus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1875.[2]
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| Heriaeus hirtus | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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)
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Species
editAs of November 2022[update] it contains thirty-seven species, found in Europe, Asia, and Africa:[1]
- Heriaeus algericus Loerbroks, 1983 – Algeria
- Heriaeus allenjonesi van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – South Africa
- Heriaeus antoni van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – Senegal, Yemen
- Heriaeus buffoni (Audouin, 1826) – North Africa, Israel
- Heriaeus buffonopsis Loerbroks, 1983 – Central Asia
- Heriaeus capillatus Utochkin, 1985 – Kazakhstan
- Heriaeus chareshi (Sen & Sureshan, 2022) – India
- Heriaeus charitonovi Utochkin, 1985 – Central Asia
- Heriaeus concavus Tang & Li, 2010 – China
- Heriaeus convexus Tang & Li, 2010 – China
- Heriaeus copricola van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – South Africa
- Heriaeus crassispinus Lawrence, 1942 – Central, East, Southern Africa
- Heriaeus delticus Utochkin, 1985 – Russia (Europe)
- Heriaeus fedotovi Charitonov, 1946 – Central Asia
- Heriaeus foordi van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – South Africa
- Heriaeus graminicola (Doleschall, 1852) – Europe, Caucasus, Iran
- Heriaeus hirtus (Latreille, 1819) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus
- Heriaeus horridus Tyschchenko, 1965 – Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Central Asia
- Heriaeus latifrons Lessert, 1919 – Tanzania
- Heriaeus madagascar van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – Madagascar
- Heriaeus maurusius Loerbroks, 1983 – Morocco
- Heriaeus mellotteei Simon, 1886 – China, Korea, Japan
- Heriaeus muizenberg van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – South Africa
- Heriaeus numidicus Loerbroks, 1983 – Morocco, Algeria
- Heriaeus oblongus Simon, 1918 – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia
- Heriaeus orientalis Simon, 1918 – Greece, Turkey, Ukraine
- Heriaeus peterwebbi van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – Namibia, South Africa
- Heriaeus pilosus Nosek, 1905 – Turkey
- Heriaeus setiger (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – South-eastern Europe, Turkey, Middle East, Caucasus
- Heriaeus simoni Kulczyński, 1903 – Southwest Europe, Greece, Turkey
- Heriaeus sossusvlei van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – Namibia, South Africa
- Heriaeus spinipalpus Loerbroks, 1983 – Eastern Mediterranean, Caucasus, Iran, Turkmenistan
- Heriaeus transvaalicus Simon, 1895 – South Africa
- Heriaeus xanderi van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – Tanzania, South Africa
- Heriaeus xinjiangensis Liang, Zhu & Wang, 1991 – China
- Heriaeus zanii van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – South Africa
- Heriaeus zhalosni Komnenov, 2017 – Bulgaria,[3] North Macedonia, Greece
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
- H. difficilis Strand, 1906
- H. melanotrichus Simon, 1903
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Simon, E. (1875). Les arachnides de France. Paris 2. pp. 1–350.
- ^ 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
edit- 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.