Hersilia (genus)

Hersilia (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Hersilia"


image_caption = female "H. yaeyamaensis" from Okinawa
image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Hersiliidae
genus = "Hersilia"
genus_authority = Audouin, 1826
diversity_link = List of Hersiliidae species#Hersilia
diversity = 72 species
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Hersilia savignyi"
"others, see text"

"Hersilia" is a genus of "tree trunk spiders" in the Hersiliidae family. Its members are sometimes called two-tailed spider, owing to their greatly enlarged spinnerets.

Males grow up to 8 mm long, females up to 10 mm.

They can be found in tree trunks in gardens or jungle fringes in Africa and Australasia.

References

* (2005): Systematics of the Hersiliidae (Araneae) of the Afrotropical Region. [http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02082006-161214/ Abstract, links to PDF downloads (5 chapters)]
* (1987): The Australian Hersiliidae (Arachnida : Araneae): Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography. "Invertebrate Taxonomy" 1(4): 351-437. [http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=IT9870351.pdf PDF]

External links

* [http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/spiders/text/Hersilia.htm Pictures of male and female "Hersilia sp."]


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