| Heligmomerus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Idiopidae |
| Genus: | Heligmomerus Simon, 1892 |
| Type species | |
| H. taprobanicus Simon, 1892 | |
| Species | |
|
14, see text | |
Heligmomerus is a genus of armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892.
Species
As of August 2022, it contains fourteen species, mostly from Africa, and seven from India:
- Heligmomerus astutus (Hewitt, 1915) – Zimbabwe
- Heligmomerus barkudensis (Gravely, 1921) – India
- Heligmomerus biharicus (Gravely, 1915) – India
- Heligmomerus caffer Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Heligmomerus carsoni Pocock, 1897 – Tanzania
- Heligmomerus deserti Pocock, 1901 – Botswana
- Heligmomerus garoensis (Tikader, 1977) – India
- Heligmomerus jagadishchandra Das, Pratihar, Khatun & Diksha, 2022 – India
- Heligmomerus jeanneli Berland, 1914 – East Africa
- Heligmomerus maximus Sanap & Mirza, 2015 – India
- Heligmomerus prostans Simon, 1892 – India
- Heligmomerus somalicus Pocock, 1896 – Somalia
- Heligmomerus taprobanicus Simon, 1892 (type) – Sri Lanka
- Heligmomerus wii Siliwal, Hippargi, Yadav & Kumar, 2020 – India
See also
References
- ^ "Gen. Heligmomerus Simon, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 23.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
- Simon, E (1892). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
External links
Data related to Heligmomerus at Wikispecies
| Taxon identifiers | |
|---|---|
| Heligmomerus | |
This Idiopidae article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |