''Bemmeridae'' is a family of African and Asian mygalomorph spiders that was first described as the tribe ''Bemmereae'' by
Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist in history, ...
in 1903.
It was elevated to a subfamily of
funnel-web trapdoor spiders (''Bemmerinae'') in 1985,
then to its own family in 2020.
Genera
, the
World Spider Catalog
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature.
The WSC began as a series of ...
accepts the following genera:
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Atmetochilus''
Simon, 1887 - Myanmar, Indonesia (Sumatra), Thailand
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Damarchus
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Thorell, 1891 – India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore
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Homostola''
Simon, 1892 – South Africa
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Spiroctenus
''Spiroctenus'' is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders in the family Bemmeridae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, an ...
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Simon, 1889 – South Africa
References
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Mygalomorphae families