Homostola
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Homostola
| authority = Simon, 1892
| type_species = H. vulpecula
| type_species_authority = Simon, 1892
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 5, see text
| synonyms =
- Paromostola Purcell, 1903{{cite journal| last=Raven| first=R. J.| year=1985| title=The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics| journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| volume=182| page=127}}
- Stictogaster Purcell, 1902
}}
Homostola is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders in the family Bemmeridae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1892| title=Etudes arachnologiques. 24e Mémoire. XXXIX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de la famille des Aviculariidae (suite)| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=271–284| volume=61| doi=10.1080/21686351.1892.12278480| author-link=Eugène Simon}} Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was transferred to the wafer trapdoor spiders in 1985, and to the Bemmeridae in 2020.{{cite journal| last=Opatova| first=V.| display-authors=etal| year=2020| title=Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data| journal=Systematic Biology| volume=69| issue=4| pages=700–701| doi=10.1093/sysbio/syz064| pmid=31841157| doi-access=free}} It is a senior synonym of Stictogaster and Paromostola.
Species
{{as of|2024|11}} it contains five species:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Homostola Simon, 1892| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2020-07-11| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/703| doi=10.24436/2}}
- 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
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal| last=Tucker| first=R. W. E.| year=1917| title=On some South African Aviculariidae (Arachnida). Families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Diplotheleae and Dipluridae| journal=Annals of the South African Museum| pages=79–138| volume=17}}
- {{cite journal| last=Purcell| first=W. F.| year=1902| title=New South African trap-door spiders of the family Ctenizidae in the collection of the South African Museum| journal=Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society| pages=348–382| volume=11| doi=10.1080/21560382.1900.9525972| url=https://zenodo.org/record/1642179}}
- {{cite journal| last=Hewitt| first=J.| year=1916| title=Descriptions of new South African spiders| journal=Annals of the Transvaal Museum| pages=180–213| volume=5}}
- {{cite journal| last=Hewitt| first=J.| year=1915| title=Notes on several four-lunged spiders in the collection of the Durban Museum, with descriptions of two new forms| journal=Annales of the Durban Museum| pages=125–133| volume=1}}
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Category:Endemic spiders of South Africa
Category:Spiders of South Africa
Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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