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]
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Scientific classification 
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| 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
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| Species | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
editAs of November 2024[update] it contains five species:[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, Eswatini
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Homostola Simon, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
- ^ a b c d Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 127.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Opatova, V.; et al. (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
edit- Tucker, R. W. E. (1917). "On some South African Aviculariidae (Arachnida). Families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Diplotheleae and Dipluridae". Annals of the South African Museum. 17: 79–138.
- 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. 11: 348–382. doi:10.1080/21560382.1900.9525972.
- Hewitt, J. (1916). "Descriptions of new South African spiders". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 5: 180–213.
- 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. 1: 125–133.