Heriaeus

Heriaeus
Heriaeus hirtus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Heriaeus Simon, 1875[1]
Type species
H. hirtus (Latreille, 1819)
Species
36, see text

Heriaeus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1875.^[2]

Species[]

As of September 2020 it contains thirty-six species, found in Europe, Asia, and Africa:^[1]

• Loerbroks, 1983 – Algeria
• van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – South Africa
• van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – Senegal, Yemen
• (Audouin, 1826) – North Africa, Israel
• Loerbroks, 1983 – Central Asia
• Utochkin, 1985 – Kazakhstan
• Utochkin, 1985 – Central Asia
• Tang & Li, 2010 – China
• Tang & Li, 2010 – China
• van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – South Africa
• Lawrence, 1942 – Central, East, Southern Africa
• Utochkin, 1985 – Russia (Europe)
• Charitonov, 1946 – Central Asia
• van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – South Africa
• (Doleschall, 1852) – Europe, Caucasus, Iran
• Heriaeus hirtus (Latreille, 1819) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus
• Tyschchenko, 1965 – Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Central Asia
• Lessert, 1919 – Tanzania
• van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – Madagascar
• Loerbroks, 1983 – Morocco
• Simon, 1886 – China, Korea, Japan
• van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – South Africa
• Loerbroks, 1983 – Morocco, Algeria
• Simon, 1918 – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia
• Simon, 1918 – Greece, Turkey, Ukraine
• van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – Namibia, South Africa
• Nosek, 1905 – Turkey
• (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – South-eastern Europe, Turkey, Middle East, Caucasus
• Kulczyński, 1903 – Southwest Europe, Greece, Turkey
• van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – Namibia, South Africa
• Loerbroks, 1983 – Eastern Mediterranean, Caucasus, Iran, Turkmenistan
• Simon, 1895 – South Africa
• van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – Tanzania, South Africa
• Liang, Zhu & Wang, 1991 – China
• van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2013 – South Africa
• Komnenov, 2017 – 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

References[]

Further reading[]

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