Calommata Explained

Calommata is a genus of purseweb spiders first described by Hippolyte Lucas in 1837.^[1]

Species

it contains sixteen species:^[2]

• Calommata fulvipes (Lucas, 1835) (type) – Indonesia (Java, Sumatra)
• Calommata hangzhica F. Li & Xu, 2022 – China
• Calommata jinggangica F. Li & Xu, 2022 – China
• Calommata megae Fourie, Haddad & Jocqué, 2011 – Zimbabwe
• Calommata meridionalis Fourie, Haddad & Jocqué, 2011 – South Africa
• Calommata namibica Fourie, Haddad & Jocqué, 2011 – Namibia
• Calommata obesa Simon, 1886 – Thailand
• Calommata pichoni Schenkel, 1963 – China
• Calommata signata Karsch, 1879 – China, Korea, Japan
• Calommata simoni Pocock, 1903 – West, Central, East Africa
• Calommata sundaica (Doleschall, 1859) – Indonesia (Java, Sumatra), Israel
• Calommata tamdaoensis Zha, Pham & Li, 2012 – Vietnam
• Calommata tibialis Fourie, Haddad & Jocqué, 2011 – Ivory Coast, Togo
• Calommata transvaalica (Hewitt, 1916) – South Africa
• Calommata truculenta (Thorell, 1887) – Myanmar
• Calommata yuanjiangica F. Li & Xu, 2022 – China

Notes and References

1. Lucas. H.. 1837. Observations sur les aranéides du genre Pachyloscelis, et synonymie de ce genre.. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 369–392. 6.
2. 2022. Gen. Calommata Lucas, 1837. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. 21 February 2022.