Heligmomerus Explained

Heligmomerus is a genus of armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892.^[1]

Species

As of August 2022, it contains fourteen species, mostly from Africa, and seven from India:^[2]

• 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

• List of Idiopidae species

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E . Histoire naturelle des araignées . Roret . 1892 . Paris . 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 . Eugène_Simon.
2. 2022 . Gen. Heligmomerus Simon, 1892 . Natural History Museum Bern . 10.24436/2 . World Spider Catalog Version 23.5 . 12 August 2022.