Taxon details

Family: Hersiliidae / Genus: Hersilia

Hersilia caudata Audouin, 1826

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-10-04
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006016]
  • Distribution: Cape Verde Is., West Africa to China
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; f (120872) of Hersilia hirtiventris (Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006)
  • Neotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; f (128065) (Benoit, 1967b)
  • Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; m (Baehr & Baehr, 1993b)
  • Paralectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 7f 8jf (Baehr & Baehr, 1993b)
Taxonomic references
Hersilia caudata Audouin, 1826: 318, pl. 1, f. 8 (Df).
Hersilia caudata C. L. Koch, 1843: 103, f. 824 (f).
Hersilia caudata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876b: 560, pl. 58, f. 6.
Hersilia diversa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876b: 561 (Dj, provisional name) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054143].
Hersilia caudata Simon, 1893a: 446, f. 418-423.
Hersilia caudata Kulczyński, 1901a: 18, pl. 1, f. 18-19 (f, Dm).
Hersilia hirtiventris Benoit, 1967b: 23, f. 6-7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054143].
Hersilia caudata Benoit, 1967b: 34, f. 37, 40, 44 (mf, S of Hersilia diversa).
Hersilia caudata Benoit, 1971: 152 (S of Hersilia hirtiventris).
Hersilia caudata Baehr & Baehr, 1993b: 17, f. 1, 15a-f (mf).
Hersilia caudata Baehr, 1998: 63, f. 1d (m).
Hersilia caudata Levy, 2003: 21, f. 41-46 (mf).
Hersilia caudata Rheims, Brescovit & van Harten, 2004: 336, f. 1-3, 7-15 (mf).
Hersilia caudata Rheims & Brescovit, 2004a: 208, f. 11, 30, 36, 51-54 (mf).
Hersilia caudata Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006: 59, f. 132-138, 200 (mf).
Hersilia caudata El-Hennawy, 2010: 25, f. 1-3 (mf).
Hersilia caudata Sallam, 2012a: 176, f. 1a-c (mf).
Hersilia caudata Wen et al., 2022: 36, f. 5B (m).
Hersilia caudata Mousaid & Bouihouline, 2023a: 393, f. 2, 3a-c (f).
References

Audouin, V. (1826). Explication sommaire des planches d'arachnides de l'Égypte et de la Syrie. In: Savigny, M. J. C. L. de: "Description de l'Égypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée franҫaise, publié par les ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand.". Histoire Naturelle 1(4): 1-339 (arachnids, pp. 99-186, pl. 1-7). [for year of publication and authorship see Sherbourn, 1897, Tollitt, 1986 and ICZN, 1987b; a second edition was publ. in 1829, with different pagination: arachnids, pp. 291-430] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Baehr, M. & Baehr, B. (1993b). The Hersiliidae of the Oriental Region including New Guinea. Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography (Arachnida, Araneae). Spixiana 19(Suppl.): 1-95. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Baehr, B. (1998). The genus Hersilia: phylogeny and distribution in Australia and New Guinea (Arachnida, Araneae, Hersiliidae). In: Selden, P. A. (ed.) Proceedings of the 17th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Edinburgh 1997. Edinburgh, pp. 61-65. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Benoit, P. L. G. (1967b). Révision des espèces africaines du genre Hersilia Sav. et Aud. (Aran.-Hersiliidae). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 76: 1-36. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Benoit, P. L. G. (1971). Notules arachnologiques africaines I. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 83(1-2): 147-158. download pdf -- Show included taxa

El-Hennawy, H. K. (2010). Hersiliidae of Sudan (Araneida: Hersiliidae). Serket 12: 23-31. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Foord, S. H. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2006). A revision of the Afrotropical species of Hersilia Audouin (Araneae: Hersiliidae). Zootaxa 1347: 1-92. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1347.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1843). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Zehnter Band, pp. 37-142, pl. 337-360 (f. 777-849). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1901a). Arachnoidea in Colonia Erythraea a Dre K. M. Levander collecta. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 41: 1-64. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (2003). Spiders of the families Anyphaenidae, Hahniidae, Ctenidae, Zoridae, and Hersiliidae (Araneae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 49: 1-31. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mousaid, M. & Bouihouline, H. (2023a). First record of Hersilia caudata Savigny, 1825, Tama edwardsi (Lucas, 1846) (Hersiliidae) and Mimetus laevigatus (Keyserling, 1863) (Mimetidae) from Morocco. Serket 19(4): 391-397. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1876b). Catalogue of a collection of spiders made in Egypt, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 44(3): 541-630, pl. 58-60. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1876.tb02595.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Rheims, C. A. & Brescovit, A. D. (2004a). Revision and cladistic analysis of the spider family Hersiliidae (Arachnida, Araneae) with emphasis on Neotropical and Nearctic species. Insect Systematics & Evolution 35(2): 189-239. doi:10.1163/187631204788912355 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Rheims, C. A., Brescovit, A. D. & Harten, A. van (2004). Hersiliidae (Araneae) from Yemen, with description of a new species of Hersilia Audouin, 1826 from Socotra Island. Fauna of Arabia 20: 335-347. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sallam, G. M. E. (2012a). Redescription of two tailed spider, Hersilia caudata Savigny, 1825 (Araneae, Hersiliidae) from Egypt. Indian Journal of Arachnology 1(1): 175-181. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wen, Y. L., Liao, R. R., He, A. L., Yin, H. Q. & Xu, X. (2022). A new species of the genus Hersilia from Shiwandashan Mountain, China (Araneae, Hersiliidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 31(1): 32-37. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2022.01.005 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Gloor, D., Hänggi, A., Kropf, C.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 05.2018. doi: 10.24436/1

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-10-04 New taxonomic reference entry Mousaid & Bouihouline, 2023a n/a
2022-05-25 New taxonomic reference entry Wen et al., 2022 n/a