Heriaeus Explained

Heriaeus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1875.^[1]

Species

it contains thirty-seven species, found in Europe, Asia, and Africa:^[2]

• 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

Nomina dubia

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

See also

• List of Thomisidae species

Further reading

• Loerbroks. A.. 1983. Revision der Krabbenspinnen-Gattung Heriaeus Simon (Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF. 85–139. 26.
• 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. 447–476. 54. 2. 10.5733/afin.054.0213. 86136149. free.
• Utochkin. A. S.. 1985. Materials of the spider genus Heriaeus (Aranei, Thomisidae) of the USSR. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Leningrad. 105–113. 139.
• 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. 627–680. 112.
• Vidal. E.. Oger. P.. 2017. Heriaeus graminicola (Doleschall, 1852) (Araneae, Thomisidae) unse espèce confirmée pour la faune de France. Revue Arachnologique. 11–13. 4.

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E.. 1875. Les arachnides de France. Paris 2. 1–350. Eugène_Simon.
2. Gen. Heriaeus Simon, 1875. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-10-10. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
3. 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 . 6 June 2024.