Heligmomerus is a genus of armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892.[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: | Idiopidae |
| Genus: | Heligmomerus Simon, 1892[1] |
| Type species | |
| H. taprobanicus Simon, 1892
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14, see text | |
Species
editAs of August 2022, it contains fourteen species, mostly from Africa, and seven from India:[1]
- Heligmomerus astutus (Hewitt, 1915) – Zimbabwe
- Heligmomerus barkudensis (Gravely, 1921) – India
- Heligmomerus biharicus (Gravely, 1915) – India
- Heligmomerus caffer Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Heligmomerus carsoni Pocock, 1897 – Tanzania
- Heligmomerus deserti Pocock, 1901 – Botswana
- Heligmomerus garoensis (Tikader, 1977) – India
- Heligmomerus jagadishchandra Das, Pratihar, Khatun & Diksha, 2022 – India
- Heligmomerus jeanneli Berland, 1914 – East Africa
- Heligmomerus maximus Sanap & Mirza, 2015 – India
- Heligmomerus prostans Simon, 1892 – India
- Heligmomerus somalicus Pocock, 1896 – Somalia
- Heligmomerus taprobanicus Simon, 1892 (type) – Sri Lanka
- Heligmomerus wii Siliwal, Hippargi, Yadav & Kumar, 2020 – India
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Heligmomerus Simon, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 23.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
- ^ Simon, E (1892). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
External links
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Data related to Heligmomerus at Wikispecies