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Heser

Heser is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by T. K. Tuneva in 2004.

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Heser
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Heser
Tuneva, 20041
Type species
H. malefactor
Tuneva, 2004
Species

11, see text

Heser is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by T. K. Tuneva in 2004.2

Species

As of May 2019 it contains eleven species, two from North America:31

  • Heser aradensis (Levy, 1998) – Israel
  • Heser bernardi (Marinaro, 1967) – Spain, Algeria
  • Heser bonneti (Marinaro, 1967) – Algeria
  • Heser hierosolymitanus (Levy, 1998) – Israel
  • Heser hispanus Senglet, 2012 – Spain
  • Heser infumatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Tanzania, Egypt, Israel
  • Heser malefactor Tuneva, 2004 (type) – Kazakhstan
  • Heser nilicola (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) – Mediterranean, Canary Is. Introduced to USA, Mexico
  • Heser schmitzi (Kulczyński, 1899) – Spain, Madeira, Canary Is. Introduced to USA
  • Heser stoevi Deltshev, 2016 – Turkmenistan
  • Heser vijayanagara Bosselaers, 2010 – India
References

References

  1. "Gen. Heser Tuneva, 2004". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. Tuneva, T. K. (2004), "A contribution on the gnaphosid spider fauna (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) of east Kazakhstan", in Logunov, D. V.; D. Penney (eds.), European Arachnology 2003 (Proceedings of the 21st European Colloquium of Arachnology, St
  3. "Genus Heser". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-04.