Hersilia (spider)

Hersilia, also known as long-spinnereted bark spiders and two-tailed spiders, is a genus of tree trunk spiders that was first described by Jean Victoire Audouin in 1826. Their nicknames are a reference to their greatly enlarged spinnerets.

Males can grow up to 8 mm long, and females can grow up to 10 mm. They are found in Africa, Asia, and Australasia, on tree trunks, in gardens, or in jungle fringes.

Species
The revisions by Baehr & Baehr and Rheims & Brescovit revealed 26 species in southeast Asia.

it contains seventy-eight species:


 * H. albicomis Simon, 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 Berland, 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 Strand, 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