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

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

Species

As of November 2022 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 – 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

Nomina dubia

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

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "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.

Further reading

  • 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.


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