Biology:Homostola

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Homostola
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Bemmeridae
Genus: Homostola
Simon, 1892[1]
Type species
H. vulpecula
Simon, 1892
Species

5, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Paromostola Purcell, 1903[2]
  • Stictogaster Purcell, 1902[2]

Homostola is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders in the family Bemmeridae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892.[3] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae,[3] it was transferred to the wafer trapdoor spiders in 1985,[2] and to the Bemmeridae in 2020.[4] It is a senior synonym of Stictogaster and Paromostola.[2]

Species

(As of June 2020) it contains five species, all found in South Africa :[1]

  • 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

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Homostola Simon, 1892. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/703. Retrieved 2020-07-11. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 127. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 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 61: 271–284. 
  4. Opatova, V. (2020). "Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data". Systematic Biology 69 (4): 700–701. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz064. PMID 31841157. 

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q601342 entry