World Spider Catalog

Genus: Heligmomerus Simon, 1892 | Family: Idiopidae Simon, 1889

Heligmomerus australis Khandekar, Thackeray, Pawar, Waghe & Gangalmale, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065275

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Described:

Distribution: India

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore/Bengaluru, Karnataka, India f (NRC-AA-1198) - (Khandekar et al., 2025)
Paratype: National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore/Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 5f (NRC-AA 1199-1203) - (Khandekar et al., 2025)
Paratype: Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), Mumbai, India 4f (SP 402-405) - (Khandekar et al., 2025)

Taxonomic References

Heligmomerus australis Khandekar et al., 2025: 41, f. 1A-D, 2A-E, 3, 4A-I, S1 (Df) Original description

References

Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T., Pawar, S., Waghe, V. & Gangalmale, S. (2025). A new species of trapdoor spider (Araneae: Idiopidae: Heligmomerus) from the southern tip of India. Taprobanica 14(1): 39-47, pl. 3-5, suppl. doi: 10.47605/tapro.v14i1.350 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-05-31	New taxonomic reference entry	Khandekar et al., 2025
2025-05-31	New species inserted	Khandekar et al., 2025

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