Homostola Explained

Homostola is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders in the family Bemmeridae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892.^[1] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was transferred to the wafer trapdoor spiders in 1985, and to the Bemmeridae in 2020.^[2] It is a senior synonym of Stictogaster and Paromostola.

Species

it contains five species, all found in South Africa:^[3]

• Homostola abernethyi (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
• Homostola pardalina (Hewitt, 1913) – South Africa
• Homostola reticulata (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
• Homostola vulpecula Simon, 1892 (type) – South Africa
• Homostola zebrina Purcell, 1902 – South Africa

See also

• List of Bemmeridae species

Further reading

• Tucker. R. W. E.. 1917. On some South African Aviculariidae (Arachnida). Families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Diplotheleae and Dipluridae. Annals of the South African Museum. 79–138. 17.
• Purcell. W. F.. 1902. New South African trap-door spiders of the family Ctenizidae in the collection of the South African Museum. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 348–382. 11. 10.1080/21560382.1900.9525972.
• Hewitt. J.. 1916. Descriptions of new South African spiders. Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 180–213. 5.
• Hewitt. J.. 1915. Notes on several four-lunged spiders in the collection of the Durban Museum, with descriptions of two new forms. Annales of the Durban Museum. 125–133. 1.

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1892. Etudes arachnologiques. 24e Mémoire. XXXIX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de la famille des Aviculariidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 271–284. 61. Eugène_Simon.
2. Opatova. V.. etal. 2020. Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data. Systematic Biology. 69. 4. 700–701. 10.1093/sysbio/syz064. 31841157. free.
3. Gen. Homostola Simon, 1892. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-11. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.