Afrasian Wishbone Spiders
Bemmeridae
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.
4 branches of this family, most-observed first
Damarchus
genusDamarchus
Spiroctenus
genusSpiroctenus
Homostola
genusHomostola
Atmetochilus
genusAtmetochilus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Bemmeridae in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1108914.