Bemmeridae
Sign in to saveBemmeridae is a family of African and Asian mygalomorph spiders that was first described as the tribe Bemmereae by Eugène Simon in 1903. It was elevated to a subfamily of funnel-web trapdoor spiders (Bemmerinae) in 1985, then to its own family in 2020.
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Bemmeridae is a family of African and Asian mygalomorph spiders that was first described as the tribe Bemmereae by Eugène Simon in 1903. It was elevated to a subfamily of funnel-web trapdoor spiders (Bemmerinae) in 1985, then to its own family in 2020.
==Genera== , this family includes four genera and 52 species: Atmetochilus Simon, 1887 – Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand Damarchus Thorell, 1891 – Southeast Asia, India Homostola Simon, 1892 – Eswatini, South Africa Spiroctenus Simon, 1889 – Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa
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