Homostola

Homostola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Bemmeridae
Genus:	Homostola Simon, 1892
Type species
H. vulpecula Simon, 1892
Species
5, see text
Synonyms
Paromostola Purcell, 1903 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. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was transferred to the wafer trapdoor spiders in 1985, and to the Bemmeridae in 2020. It is a senior synonym of Stictogaster and Paromostola.

Species

As of September 2025^[update] it contains five species:

• 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

References

Further reading

• Tucker, R. W. E. (1917). "On some South African Aviculariidae (Arachnida). Families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Diplotheleae and Dipluridae". Annals of the South African Museum. 17: 79–138.
• Purcell, W. F. (1902). "New South African trap-door spiders of the family Ctenizidae in the collection of the South African Museum". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 11: 348–382. doi:10.1080/21560382.1900.9525972.
• Hewitt, J. (1916). "Descriptions of new South African spiders". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 5: 180–213.
• Hewitt, J. (1915). "Notes on several four-lunged spiders in the collection of the Durban Museum, with descriptions of two new forms". Annales of the Durban Museum. 1: 125–133.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Homostola at iNaturalist