Hersilia, also known as long-spinnered bark spiders and two-tailed spiders, is a genus of tree trunk spiders that was first described by Jean Victoire Audouin in 1826. Their nicknames are a reference to their greatly enlarged spinnerets. Males can grow up to long, and females can grow up to . They are found in Africa, Asia, and Australasia, on tree trunks, in gardens, or in jungle fringes. Species The revisions by Baehr & Baehr and Rheims & Brescovit revealed 26 species in southeast Asia. it contains seventy-eight species: H. albicomis Simon, 1887 – Ghana, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria H. albinota Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – China H. albomaculata Wang & Yin, 1985 – China H. aldabrensis Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Seychelles (Aldabra), Comoros H. alluaudi Berland, 1920 – Congo, Tanzania H. arborea Lawrence, 1928 – Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa H. asiatica Song & Zheng, 1982 – China, Thailand, Laos, Taiwan H. australiensis Baehr & Baehr, 1987 – Australia (Northern Territory) H. baforti Benoit, 1967 – Congo, Uganda H. baliensis Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Laos, Bali H. bifurcata Baehr & Baehr, 1998 – Australia (Northern Territory) H. bubi Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Equatorial Guinea, Uganda H. carobi Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Ivory Coast H. caudata Audouin, 1826 (type) – Cape Verde Is., West Africa to China H. clarki Benoit, 1967 – Zimbabwe H. clypealis Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Thailand H. deelemanae Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Indonesia (Sumatra) H. eloetsensis Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Madagascar H. facialis Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Indonesia (Sumatra) H. feai Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Myanmar H. flagellifera Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Laos, Indonesia (Sumatra) H. furcata Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Congo H. hildebrandti Karsch, 1878 – Tanzania H. igiti Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 – Rwanda H. impressifrons Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Borneo H. incompta Benoit, 1971 – Ivory Coast H. insulana Strand, 1907 – Madagascar H. jajat Rheims & Brescovit, 2004 – Borneo H. kerekot Rheims & Brescovit, 2004 – Borneo H. kinabaluensis Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – Borneo H. lelabah Rheims & Brescovit, 2004 – Borneo H. longbottomi Baehr & Baehr, 1998 – Australia (Western Australia) H. longivulva Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2010 – India H. madagascariensis (Wunderlich, 2004) – Madagascar, Comoros H. madang Baehr & Baehr, 1993 – New Guinea H. mainae Baehr & Baehr, 1995 – Australia (Western Australia) H. martensi