''Hersilia'', also known as long-spinnered bark spiders and two-tailed spiders, is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of tree trunk spiders that was first described by

Jean Victoire Audouin Jean Victor Audouin (27 April 1797 – 9 November 1841), sometimes Victor Audouin, was a French naturalist, an entomologist, herpetologist, ornithologist, and malacologist. Biography Audouin was born in Paris and was educated in the field of me ...

in 1826. Their nicknames are a reference to their greatly enlarged

spinnerets A spinneret is a silk-spinning organ of a spider or the larva of an insect. Some adult insects also have spinnerets, such as those borne on the forelegs of Embioptera. Spinnerets are usually on the underside of a spider's opisthosoma, and are ...

. Males can grow up to long, and females can grow up to . They are found in Africa, Asia, and Australasia, on tree trunks, in gardens, or in

jungle A jungle is land covered with dense forest and tangled vegetation, usually in tropical climates. Application of the term has varied greatly during the past recent century. Etymology The word ''jungle'' originates from the Sanskrit word ''ja� ...

fringes.

Species

The revisions by Baehr & Baehr and Rheims & Brescovit revealed 26 species in southeast Asia. it contains seventy-eight species: *'' H. albicomis''

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, 1887 – Ghana, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria *'' H. albinota'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – China *'' H. albomaculata'' Wang & Yin, 1985 – China *'' H. aldabrensis'' Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Seychelles (Aldabra), Comoros *'' H. alluaudi''

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, 1920 – Congo, Tanzania *'' H. arborea'' Lawrence, 1928 – Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa *'' H. asiatica'' Song & Zheng, 1982 – China, Thailand, Laos, Taiwan *'' H. australiensis'' Baehr & Baehr, 1987 – Australia (Northern Territory) *'' H. baforti'' Benoit, 1967 – Congo, Uganda *'' H. baliensis'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Laos, Bali *'' H. bifurcata'' Baehr & Baehr, 1998 – Australia (Northern Territory) *'' H. bubi'' Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Equatorial Guinea, Uganda *'' H. carobi'' Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Ivory Coast *'' H. caudata'' Audouin, 1826 ( type) – Cape Verde Is., West Africa to China *'' H. clarki'' Benoit, 1967 – Zimbabwe *'' H. clypealis'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Thailand *'' H. deelemanae'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Indonesia (Sumatra) *'' H. eloetsensis'' Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Madagascar *'' H. facialis'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Indonesia (Sumatra) *'' H. feai'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Myanmar *'' H. flagellifera'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Laos, Indonesia (Sumatra) *'' H. furcata'' Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Congo *'' H. hildebrandti'' Karsch, 1878 – Tanzania *'' H. igiti'' Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Rwanda *'' H. impressifrons'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Borneo *'' H. incompta'' Benoit, 1971 – Ivory Coast *'' H. insulana''

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, 1907 – Madagascar *'' H. jajat'' Rheims & Brescovit, 2004 – Borneo *'' H. kerekot'' Rheims & Brescovit, 2004 – Borneo *'' H. kinabaluensis'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Borneo *'' H. lelabah'' Rheims & Brescovit, 2004 – Borneo *'' H. longbottomi'' Baehr & Baehr, 1998 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' H. longivulva'' Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2010 – India *'' H. madagascariensis'' (Wunderlich, 2004) – Madagascar, Comoros *'' H. madang'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – New Guinea *'' H. mainae'' Baehr & Baehr, 1995 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' H. martensi'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Nepal, Thailand *'' H. mboszi'' Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Cameroon, Ivory Coast *'' H. mimbi'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' H. mjoebergi'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Indonesia (Sumatra) *'' H. moheliensis'' Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Comoros *'' H. montana'' Chen, 2007 – Taiwan *'' H. mowomogbe'' Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Cameroon, Congo *'' H. nentwigi'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Krakatau) *'' H. nepalensis'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Nepal *'' H. novaeguineae'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – New Guinea *'' H. occidentalis'' Simon, 1907 – West, Central, East Africa *'' H. okinawaensis'' Tanikawa, 1999 – Japan *'' H. orvakalensis'' Javed, Foord & Tampal, 2010 – India *'' H. pectinata'' Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar, Indonesia (Borneo), Philippines *'' H. pungwensis'' Tucker, 1920 – Zimbabwe *'' H. sagitta'' Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, South Africa *'' H. savignyi'' Lucas, 1836 – Sri Lanka, India to Philippines *'' H. scrupulosa'' Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Kenya *'' H. selempoi'' Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Kenya *'' H. sericea'' Pocock, 1898 – East, Southern Africa *'' H. serrata'' Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2011 – Thailand *'' H. setifrons'' Lawrence, 1928 – Angola, Namibia, South Africa *'' H. sigillata'' Benoit, 1967 – Gabon, Ivory Coast, Congo, Uganda *'' H. simplicipalpis'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Thailand *'' H. striata'' Wang & Yin, 1985 – India, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra) *'' H. sumatrana'' (Thorell, 1890) – India, Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo) *'' H. sundaica'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Thailand, Indonesia (Lombok, Sumbawa) *'' H. taita'' Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Kenya *'' H. taiwanensis'' Chen, 2007 – Taiwan *'' H. talebii'' Mirshamsi, Zamani & Marusik, 2016 – Iran *'' H. tamatavensis'' Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Madagascar *'' H. tenuifurcata'' Baehr & Baehr, 1998 – Australia (Western Australia) *'' H. thailandica'' Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2011 – Thailand *'' H. tibialis'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – India, Sri Lanka *'' H. vanmoli'' Benoit, 1971 – Ivory Coast, Togo *'' H. vicina'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Thailand *'' H. vinsoni'' Lucas, 1869 – Madagascar *'' H. wellswebberae'' Baehr & Baehr, 1998 – Australia (Northern Territory) *'' H. wraniki'' Rheims, Brescovit & van Harten, 2004 – Yemen (mainland, Socotra) *'' H. xieae'' Yin, 2012 – China *'' H. yaeyamaensis'' Tanikawa, 1999 – Japan *'' H. yunnanensis'' Wang, Song & Qiu, 1993 – China

References

External links

Pictures of male and female ''Hersilia sp.''
{{Taxonbar, from=Q3022328 Araneomorphae genera Hersiliidae Spiders of Africa Spiders of Asia Spiders of Oceania Taxa named by Jean Victoire Audouin